Czech lucerne honey

A very light honey from lucerne (alfalfa), a fodder crop grown in fields. It forms fine crystals and has only a faint, neutral aroma.

Origin

Czechia, lucerne fields (mainly warmer regions)

Colour

12 mm · extra white

Taste

very mild and pleasant

Season

June – September

Plant

Medicago sativa · lucerne →

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.

Lucerne flowers again after each cut, so it can offer bees nectar from June to September.