Pitcairn Island Honey - 2 jars


Item Number: 352

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $50

Online Close: Apr 22, 2017 8:00 PM EDT

Bid History: 3 bids - Item Sold!

Description

The tiny island in Oceania was made famous by the mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Only 1000 jars of honey are produced a year.


In the remote South Pacific, halfway between Chile and New Zealand, lies a volcanic island, barely larger than Central Park in New York City. Home to a mere fifty souls, tiny Pitcairn Island’s serene slopes and ridges harbor a rich variety of tropical fruits and flowers — mangoes, guavas, passion fruit, roseapples, bananas, papayas, and more — in a blend found nowhere else in the world. Pitcairn’s bees fill their hives with this unique mixture of nectars, creating a honey so magnificent that the Queen of England has declared it to be one of her favorite delicacies. Because Pitcairn is so small, it produces only a few hundred pounds of honey every year. Now you, too, have the opportunity to sample this rare delight.

Donated by

Janine Wonnacott