Organic arbutus honey - Mieli Manias - Sardinian food

Organic Arbutus honey made in Monte Arci, Sardinia

Organic arbutus honey - Mieli Manias - Sardinian traditional food

Arbutus honey - Mieli Manias, organic certified, made with passion by the first authority in the Italian honey-making scene.

This honey is retrieved from floral varieties of Monte Arci, one of the richest areas of Sardinia for its biodiversity. It presents a unique and decisive ending, perfect pairings with aged cheese and richly drawn dishes.

Since the 1977 Luigi Manias is the successor and heir of a "tradition" that started beekeeping in 1917 by his maternal grandfather Licu Olla, who introduced, among the firsts in Sardinia, the movable honeycomb hive. All his apiaries are in the countryside of Ales, within the constituting regional park of Monte Arci, where the dominant presence of the typical Sardinian wild flora and rare endemic plant, makes it, as always, a great place to practice beekeeping.

Depending on the year, honey asphodel sulla, thistle, eucalyptus, arbutus and spring and summer-like multifloral are obtained. The excellence of places and, perhaps, the long experience with bees have earned him, for the high quality of its honey, various awards in major national competitions.

Organic arbutus honey - Mieli Manias - Sardinian organic food

And he firmly believes that, because the beekeeping acrivity is environmentally friendly par excellence, the choices of the beekeeper must be consequential. In fact Luigi leads hives using organic methods and his lab is built in mud bricks and wood, according to the strictest principles of ecological design.

Manias, in Ales (Sardinia) from many years produce an inimitable Arbutus honey. This honey contains the typical notes of Sardinian woods.

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Try it with an aged Fiore Sardo Dop or with a white rind goat cheese 

Wide selection of typical Italian and Sardinian cuisine