Dark, thick and maple-like, with a rich, deeply addictive finish.

The Bushranger

Rare Dark Wandoo Honey

Every now and then, the bush gives up something it’s been keeping to itself.

The Bushranger began with wild bees, colonies that had made their homes inside the hollows of old trees, living beyond the fences and working the bush entirely on their own terms.

When these colonies needed to be rescued and relocated, they brought something with them.

Something remarkably dark.

Hidden within their wild homes was a honey unlike almost anything we’d seen before. Extraordinarily deep in colour, intensely flavoured and carrying the unmistakable character of Wandoo.

And Wandoo, much like a good bushranger, doesn’t make itself easy to find.

It flowers when conditions suit it, sometimes leaving years between meaningful nectar flows. So while we know what gave us this extraordinary honey, whether we’ll ever see quite the same harvest again is another matter entirely.

There’s something about The Bushranger that calls to mind the old characters of Western Australian folklore. Men like Moondyne Joe, disappearing into the bush, turning up where least expected and becoming larger in the telling with every passing year.

This honey has a little of that same mystery.

Dark, powerful and extraordinarily complex, its flavour seems almost too big to have come from a honeybee. It’s the sort of honey you taste slowly, then taste again, trying to decide exactly what you’ve just discovered.

There aren't many jars.

In fact, The Bushranger is rarely for sale at all.

When we have it, we have it. When it's gone, there’s nothing to do but wait for the Wandoo, the bees and the bush to conspire once more.

Perhaps somewhere, deep inside another old tree, the next batch is already being made.

We just haven't found it yet.

Dark. Elusive. Wanted.