11-05-2025
The honey from a hidden Turkish valley that costs £1,000 a vial
More than a mile up in the remote Kaçkar mountains of northeastern Turkey, a beekeeper stops at a clearing where the land drops away into two steep valleys, shrouded in fog.
Each valley has its own ecosystem of endemic plants and creatures, Mehmet Can explains, and both burst with chestnut and fruit trees, wild flowers and herbs.
But only one has the right conditions to produce Elvish honey, developed a few years ago and now one of the most expensive in the world.
'There is no human footprint in the Elvish valley,' said Can, 60. 'It is totally isolated.'
Produced solely at this secret location in the Arhavi district of Artvin province, a limited release of Elvish honey launched at Harrods last month priced at
