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Kunzea Honey (North-East) 250g & 400g
Gold medal winner at the 2026 Royal Tasmanian Fine Food Awards. Raw, unfiltered honey from bees working the native Kunzea flowering in North-East Tasmania, harvested once a year and finished for the season once it sells out.
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Free shipping on orders over $75. Pack savings applied at checkout. Cannot be shipped to WA, Kangaroo Island or New Zealand.
To keep honey pouring like syrup for years, producers pasteurise it and filter it fine, which strips out the pollen and the aroma along the way. Most jars are also blended from several sources, sometimes several countries, so what you taste is an average rather than a place. Neither practice is wrong, but it does mean that the honey most of us grew up on tastes of very little in particular.
Why you'll love it
Cold extracted and strained below 40°C, never pasteurised.
Raw Tasmanian Kunzea Honey. No syrups, sugars or water.
One region, one flowering, fully traceable to the season.
Smooth and rich, without the bite of the stronger natives.
Hives sit in unfarmed native scrub, with no cropping nearby.
Gold at the 2026 Royal Tasmanian Fine Food Awards, judged blind.
Raw or blended
| Kunzea Honey | Typical blended honey | |
|---|---|---|
| Floral source | One plant, one flowering | Blended, often multi-country |
| Heat treated | No, cold extracted | Usually pasteurised |
| Filtration | Strained only | Fine filtered, pollen removed |
| Traceable to a region | North-East Tasmania | Typically not |
| Ingredient list | 1 | Varies, sometimes blended with syrup |
| Crystallises naturally | Yes, as raw honey does | Rarely, by design |
| Available all year | No, one harvest a year | Yes |
This compares how the two are made, not how good they are for you. Kunzea Honey is a food and we make no health claims for it. The one honest disadvantage is in the table: it runs out.
Royal Tasmanian Fine Food Awards
Our Kunzea Honey took Gold at the 2026 Royal Tasmanian Fine Food Awards, where every entry is tasted blind by a panel of chefs, producers and buyers. No label, no backstory, no brand on the jar. Just the honey.
Tasmania judging Tasmanian food, which is a fair place to be measured.
What's inside
One hundred per cent raw, monofloral Tasmanian Kunzea Honey. That is the entire ingredient list, which is why the flavour changes a little from season to season rather than tasting identical forever.
Kunzea ambigua is an Australian native shrub, and it is the same plant behind our Kunzea oil. The honey is the edible side of it.
See the full product detailsKunzea flowers for a short window in spring, and the yield is low. For every five drums of other native honeys our beekeepers produce, only one drum of Kunzea comes out of the season.
Warming honey past 40°C makes it pour more easily and keeps it liquid on the shelf, but it drives off the aroma and the natural enzymes. We strain it cold and accept that it will set in the jar.
The hives sit in wild, unfarmed bush with no cropping or spraying in the forage range, but we do not hold an organic certification. We would rather tell you exactly what we do than use a word we cannot back up.
How to enjoy it
How most people finish the first jar faster than they planned.
Warm bread is where a mild honey shows its character.
Drizzled over thick Greek yoghurt with fruit or nuts.
In place of sugar. Let the tea cool a little first.
Alongside a mild goat's cheese or a soft brie.
Part of an antipasto or grazing platter.
A spoonful through oats or Bircher in the morning.
Rare, local and easy to post. Add a cotton gift bag below.
Complete the pantry
Everything here is Zea Gourmet and ships together. Note that honey and bee products cannot travel to WA, Kangaroo Island or New Zealand.
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Macadamia, Pistachio, Kunzea and Wattleseed. Contains nuts.
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Zea began in 2016 as a family stall in Tasmania, selling Kunzea to people who had never heard of it. We are now a Certified B Corporation and a 1% for the Planet member, donating one per cent of all sales to the planet. The honey came about because the same plant that made our oil turned out to make something worth eating, and we would rather sell a little of it properly than a lot of it heated and blended.
From the creators of Australia's favourite Kunzea products
Questions, answered
It is harvested just once a year in spring, when the native Kunzea ambigua flowers for a short seasonal window in North-East Tasmania. For every five drums of other native honeys, only one drum of Kunzea can be produced. Once we run out, that is it until next season.
Yes. 100% raw, unfiltered and unprocessed, with no additives, colourants or preservatives. It is single origin, fully traceable, and produced under sustainable, ethical beekeeping practices.
Smooth and rich with a mild, approachable sweetness and a distinctive native character. It is far gentler than the stronger native honeys people often expect, which is why it works on toast and in tea as easily as straight off the spoon.
Completely normal, and a sign it has not been heat treated. Crystallisation does not mean it has spoiled. To return it to liquid, stand the jar in warm water for about 15 minutes, keeping it below 40°C so the raw enzymes are preserved. Do not microwave it.
Across Australia with two exceptions. Because of quarantine restrictions on bee products, Tasmanian honey cannot be sent to Western Australia or Kangaroo Island, and we cannot ship it to New Zealand. Everything else in our range travels normally.
Honey of any kind should not be given to children under 12 months, because of the risk of infant botulism. For older children and adults it is an ordinary food. Avoid it if you are allergic to honey, bee stings or bee products.
No. The hives are placed in wild, unfarmed native bush with no cropping or agricultural spraying in the bees' forage range, but we hold no organic certification and will not claim one.
The 400g works out cheaper per gram and is what most people reorder. The 250g is the easier place to start, and the easier jar to give away.
Choose your pack above and the discount is applied automatically at checkout. There is no code to enter: 5% off 3 or more, 10% off 5 or more eligible Zea products.
In a cool, dry place out of direct sunlight. Raw honey keeps for a very long time and does not need refrigeration.
Free shipping on Australian orders over $75 · raw and cold extracted · single origin North-East Tasmania. Choose your size and pack and we will get it on its way.
Choose your sizeKunzea Honey is a food. No therapeutic or medicinal claims are made for it. Not suitable for infants under 12 months. Avoid if you are allergic to honey, bee stings or bee products. Do not heat above 40°C. Because of quarantine restrictions on bee products this item cannot be shipped to Western Australia, Kangaroo Island or New Zealand.
Kunzea Honey 400g
