Description
Honey rose centifolia Grasse
WHY MAKE CENTIFOLIA ROSE HONEY?
The centifolia rose is one of our crops because all our visitors to our gites www.locations-06.fr appreciate it.
It seduces with its color, its smell, has many uses and adapts wonderfully to our clay-limestone soils and our Mediterranean climate.
It requires little water and grows quickly, and tastes wonderfully with bitter orange, our traditional crop.
The centifolia rose is one of our crops because all our visitors to our gites www.locations-06.fr appreciate it. Historically, it is also one of the most cultivated perfume plants in the Pays de Grasse: it is the famous Rose de Mai.
It seduces with its color, its smell, has many uses and adapts wonderfully to our clay-limestone soils and our Mediterranean climate.
Low in water consumption and fast growing, it tastes wonderfully with bitter orange, our crop
Everyone was asking us for HONEY, an exquisite product par excellence. So we had the idea of marrying acacia honey to our roses.
THIS HONEY has won two awards: Gold Medal at the Brignoles agricultural competition and Silver Medal at the Paris agricultural competition, which we buy from a fellow beekeeper in the Var, is sweet and tasty. It does not set, keeps indefinitely and has an extraordinary taste that seduces the most demanding.
CULTURE OF THE CENTIFOLIA ROSE
This is the centifolia rose (rosa x centifolia). In Pays Grassois, we traditionally favor rose bushes grafted onto rosa indica rootstocks, which are better suited to the Mediterranean climate.
We bought our organic plants from a fellow farmer, and now we make our own cuttings.
Planted in the ground between November and January, then watered, the rose bushes are hand-hoeed and amended with organic fertilizer.
The big moment will be the month of May when the freshly bloomed roses will be harvested every morning for almost a month.
MAKING CENTIFOLIA ROSE HONEY
So to this honey, we add after having processed them our centifolia roses. The marriage of these 2 beautiful and very aromatic parents gives a beautiful result: our centifolia rose honey.
USES OF CENTIFOLIA ROSE FLAVORED HONEY
Sublime on fresh goat cheese, faisselle, fromage blanc.
Red fruit cup, in fruit salad. For gourmands: in an excellent croissant.
Technical data and origin:
Rose centifolia (Rosa x centifolia, L., 1753): Le Bar sur Loup, Pays Grassois, Côte d’Azur, France
Acacia honey: France
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