Zea Gourmet · Raw Tasmanian Honey
Most honey on the shelf is heated, filtered and blended until all that’s left is sweetness. Ours comes from one native flower on a little island at the bottom of the world, harvested once a year and jarred without changing a thing. Here are five reasons honey lovers never go back.
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You don’t have to take the “real honey” claim on faith. Judged blind against the best produce in the state that takes food more seriously than anywhere else in Australia, our Kunzea Honey took home gold at the Royal Tasmanian Fine Food Awards.
Zea is a Certified B Corporation, so every jar also supports ethical Australian beekeeping and native bee habitat.
Reason 1
Most honey is blended from thousands of paddocks and hundreds of flowers, so it all ends up tasting the same. Kunzea Honey comes from one: the white blossom of Kunzea Ambigua, a native shrub that flowers for a short window each spring in Tasmania. One flower, one harvest, one origin you can trace to the hive.
That single harvest gives it a smooth, buttery texture and a gentle sweetness you will not find in blended honey. When it is gone for the season, it is gone.
Reason 2
Supermarket honey is heated and heavily filtered so it pours fast and sits pretty on a shelf. Convenient for the supermarket. Terrible for the honey, because that processing strips out everything that makes it interesting.
Ours goes straight from the hive to the jar. No heat above hive temperature, no fine filtering, no added sugars, nothing blended in. The natural enzymes, pollen and character of the honey stay exactly where they belong: in the jar.
Reason 3
Honey takes on everything around it: the air, the water, the flowers. Our hives sit in north-east Tasmania and on Flinders Island, surrounded by native bush rather than broadacre crops, where the air rolling in off the Southern Ocean is regularly measured among the cleanest in the world.
Every jar supports small-scale, ethical Australian beekeepers, and every batch is independently tested. Fully traceable, GMO-free, with no additives, colourants or preservatives.
Reason 4
Kunzea Honey is the collector's jar: buttery, smooth and delicately sweet. Native Wildflower Honey from Flinders Island is the everyday hero: light and floral, made from bees foraging Kunzea, Coastal Tea Tree, Manuka, Blue Gum and seasonal wildflowers.
Stir it into tea or coffee, drizzle it over porridge or pancakes, pair it with a soft brie, or eat it straight off the spoon. Nobody is judging.
Reason 5
When you buy honey, you’re trusting whoever made it. Zea started as a family market stall in Tasmania in 2016, and today we’re a Certified B Corporation and a 1% for the Planet member, which means the way we source, harvest and ship is independently audited, not just marketing.
Every jar backs native bee habitat, ethical beekeeping and a small Australian producer. And you get the best honey you’ve ever tasted. That’s the deal.
Kunzea Honey, straight from the once-a-year Tasmanian harvest. Free standard shipping on Australian orders over $75.
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Due to quarantine restrictions, Tasmanian honey cannot be shipped to Western Australia, Kangaroo Island or New Zealand. Not suitable for infants under 12 months.
Native flavours from the same corner of the world, straight from the Zea Gourmet kitchen.
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Wildflower Honey
$14.95
One flower, one harvest a year, nothing added. Gold medal on the label, 14,800+ verified reviews behind the brand. The first spoonful will tell you the rest.
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