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Why Greek Honey Is the Best in the World: A Beekeeper Explains

For thousands of years, Greek honey has been collected for its delicious, sweet taste and healing, nutritious properties, proving that we have always had a taste for the sweet substance.
Despite its recent international appeal, Greek honey has long been considered the best in the world, even during ancient times. This is due to its pure, sweet taste along with its proven nutritional benefits.

Greece has a historic beekeeping tradition
In Greece’s Archaic period, Greeks moved past simply foraging for honey in the wild, and began beekeeping on a larger scale.
Amazingly, archaeologists have located the sites of ancient beehives after uncovering pottery used to collect their prized golden honey.
They have also found evidence that beekeepers during the Hellenistic period were so advanced that they rotated their beehives across large expanses of the country in order to take advantage of the different plants found in various regions.
This longstanding history of Greek beekeeping continues to this day, as Greek honey producers find success in engaging in this ancient practice.
Greek honey is unique because of the country’s famed biodiversity and temperate climate. The wide variety of trees and flowers found in Greece makes the country a playground for bees, who produce honey with different tastes depending on their surroundings.