Immortelle Honey in Trinidad: Which HerbWai Honeys Have It

Three HerbWai honeys, three kinds of immortelle

Paria Reserve: wild immortelle in the rainforest

In the Paria rainforest of Trinidad’s Northern Range, HerbWai’s bees forage on wild immortelle alongside balata and mountain rose. Primary rainforest at elevations of 800-1500 feet. The canopy filters sunlight creating a humid microclimate where wild bees forage on endemic flora found nowhere else on Earth. The result is HerbWai’s darkest regional honey: molasses, dark chocolate, earth. See Paria Reserve.

Camparo Estate: the immortelle that shades the cocoa

Trinidad’s cocoa estates were planted with immortelle trees to shade the cocoa, and in Camparo those trees still stand. They provide nectar in March, and HerbWai’s bees work them alongside cocoa flower and cedar. Camparo Estate tastes of cocoa, caramel, cedar. See Camparo Estate.

Biche Dark Medicinal: water immortelle by Nariva Swamp

Around Biche, bordering the Nariva Swamp, the bees forage on water immortelle with palm and manac. It makes HerbWai’s thickest, most intense honey: medicinal herbs, smoke, malt. See Biche Dark Medicinal.

Single-origin, not single-flower

HerbWai keeps each region’s honey separate, so it tastes of that whole place: the immortelle together with everything else flowering there that season. That’s why the three honeys above taste so different from each other even though immortelle is in all of them. To taste them side by side, try the Five Regions Gift Set or a honey tasting in Brasso Seco.

More on Trinidad’s bee flora in the flowers behind each region’s honey, and when each is harvested in the harvest calendar.