Cauda Miele Honey

THE PRODUCERS

In the foothills of the Piedmontese Alps, just above the small town of Montà in Cuneo, the Cauda family has been keeping bees for three generations. What began as a passion has grown into one of the region's most respected apiaries, with hives that follow the seasons across the Alpine landscape — from orange groves in bloom to high-altitude meadows thick with rhododendron and wildflowers.

Their approach has never changed. Honeys are harvested by hand at peak bloom, left raw and unfiltered, and bottled without intervention. Each variety is a direct expression of a single place and a single moment in the season — the kind of honey that reminds you what honey is actually supposed to taste like.

We were drawn to Caudamiele for the same reasons we are drawn to all the producers in our collection: an uncompromising commitment to quality, a multi-generational relationship with the land, and a refusal to take shortcuts. Their honeys are as honest as it gets.

THE LAND

Apicoltura Caudamiele's hives are rooted in the hills above Montà, a small town in the Cuneo province of Piedmont, where the terrain rises gently from the Tanaro valley toward the high Alpine meadows. It is a landscape of remarkable botanical diversity, and the Cauda family moves their hives through it with the seasons, following the blooms as they open and close across the altitudinal gradient.

On the lower slopes, orange blossom provides the nectar for one of their most luminous honeys — pale gold, floral, and delicate. As the hives move higher into the Alpine foothills, the flora shifts: vast meadows of wildflowers give way to the rhododendron that carpets the high-altitude terrain in summer, yielding a honey that is ivory-white, cool, and barely sweet. The Piedmontese Alps above Montà are also home to the rich mosaic of flowering plants that defines their wildflower honey — a variety that changes subtly with each season, shaped by rainfall, altitude, and the particular character of the year.

It is terrain that rewards patience and attentiveness, qualities the Cauda family have cultivated across three generations.

THE PRODUCTS

We are bringing in five honeys from Apicoltura Caudamiele. The Miele di Acacia is one of Italy's most beloved varietals — delicate, almost water-clear, with a light floral sweetness that lingers. The Miele di Castagno, or chestnut honey, is its counterpoint: dark, bold, and richly aromatic, with a slightly bitter finish that makes it one of the most complex honeys in the collection. The Miele di Arancio is an orange blossom honey, pale gold and silky, with a luminous floral sweetness. The Miele di Rododendro is harvested from high-altitude Alpine meadows, ivory-white in color with a cool, clean finish and a mineral edge that reflects the elevation of its source. Rounding out the collection is the Miele di Fiori delle Alpi del Piemonte, a wildflower honey shaped by the full breadth of the Piedmontese Alpine landscape — complex, warm, and deeply expressive of the season in which it was harvested.