Where it comes from
Sierra de los Filabres (Lubrín) · Sierra de Gádor (Félix) · Alpujarra · Sierra Cabrera
Before there was sugar there was honey, and Almería's sweet repertoire remembers it: honey underpins the tostadas de flores, the turrón and the alfajores, and the province's Christmas baking keeps the Moorish legacy of honey or sugar, flour and almond almost intact. Opening a jar of rosemary or orange-blossom honey is opening the first chapter of everything else.
The reference house is in Lubrín: Miel Sierra Filabres, a three-generation family business and member of Sabores Almería, with hives across the Filabres, Tabernas and other sierras and up to eleven varieties of raw honey — rosemary, orange blossom, wildflower, almond, eucalyptus, lemon, broom, avocado, albaida. In January 2023 Gastro Madrid placed it among the five best honeys in Spain.
Those who like to compare have options: Apicultura El Barranquero in Félix, in the Sierra de Gádor; Miel Flor de la Alpujarra; producers in Sierra Cabrera. For the one that tastes most of this valley, the almond and orange-blossom honeys lead straight back to the almond and orange trees of the Andarax.
What it is made with
- Rosemary honey
- Orange-blossom honey
- Wildflower honey
- Almond honey
- Eucalyptus honey
- Lemon honey
- Broom honey
- Avocado honey
- Albaida honey
- Thyme honey
Underlined ingredients link to Local produce.
- Miel Sierra Filabres
- Apicultura J. El Barranquero
- Turrones Olula de Castro
- La Alacena de Laujar
- Miel Sierra Filabres (Lubrín)
- Apicultura J. El Barranquero (Félix)
- Miel Flor de la Alpujarra (Alpujarra)