Ağrı Geven Balı

GIGeographical indications outside the EUOfficial register entry: Ağrı Geven Balı · 1050 ↗

A single-source extracted honey from shrubby milkvetches (Turkish ‘geven’), which must make up at least half of its pollen. It ranges from pale yellow to orange and is thick.

Origin

Kurdistan – Ağrı Province below Mount Ararat (Turkey)

Colour

50 mm · extra light amber

Taste

mildly aromatic, with a slight burn in the throat

Season

July – August

Plant

Astragalus spp. (geven) · milkvetch →

Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical of the variety, not a measurement of one jar. Where a source describes the colour only in words (such as ‘light amber’), we convert it to the middle of the matching band of the Pfund scale, so the figure is approximate. The season follows the sources or, failing that, the flowering time of the plant in that area.

It has been a protected designation of origin since 2022, and the specification requires it to be made by Caucasian bees (Apis mellifera caucasia).