14th Annual | 2025 Results
The 14th annual International Honey Tasting Competition was held along with our Third Annual Asheville Honey Fest at The Salvage Station. The Grand Prize for the World’s Best Tasting Honey was announced on June 8th, 2025!
Grand Prize:
- Virginia Webb, Clarkesville, Georgia, USA | N. AMER. MONOFLORAL | “Sourwood”
Category Winners:
- Jennifer Frazier, Homer, Alaska, USA | FAR NORTH | “Fireweed”
- Kipila Noongipa, Loliando. Tanzania | WORLD WILDFLOWER | “Acacia”
- Tawii te Kurapa, Ruhatahuna, New Zealand | WORLD CREAMED | “Tawari”
- Giorgi Maisuradze, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA | N. AMER. DARK | “Honeydew”
- Eugen Badetoiu, Bucharest, Romania | WORLD MONOFLORAL | “Black Locust”
- Usef Usef, Yemen, | MIDDLE EAST | “Sidr”
- Loreli Fister, Corvalis, Oregon, USA | N. AMER. CREAMED
- Gokhan Aydogdu, Mt. Ida, Turkey | WORLD DARK | “Black Edition”
- Timothy Jackson, Detroit, Michigan, USA | N. AMER. WILDFLOWER
Finalists:
- Karol & Lenka Olejnek, Ruzomberok, Slovakia | WORLD WILDFLOWER
- “Papa” Brewster, Dunkeld-Burnam, Scotland | WORLD WILDFLOWER
- Jean Coppens, Hines Creek, Alberta, Canada | FAR NORTH
- Jonas Wibert, Isokyro, Finnland | FAR NORTH
- Gary Adkison, Wewahitchka, Florida, USA | N. AMER. MONOFLORAL |“Tupelo”
- Bob Clark, Colts Neck, NJ, USA | N. AMER. MONOFLORAL | “Black Locust”
- Lars Johansson, Vimerby, Sweden | WORLD CREAMED | “Dandelion”
- Adrian Domingo Gomez, Valladolid, Spain | WORLD CREAMED | “Lavender”
- Ashley Davis, Horse Shoe, N, Carolina, USA | N. AMER. DARK
- Bob Clark, Colts Neck, New Jersey, USA | N. AMER. DARK
- Alvarro Martinez Garcia, Pontecedra, Spain | WORLD MONOFLORAL | “Chestnut”
- Lars Johansson, Vimerly, Sweden | WORLD MONOFLORAL | “Lignonberry”
- Elchin Aliyev, Baku, Azerbaijan | MIDDLE EAST | “Jerusalem Thorn”
- Rafaa Ramadan, Benghazi, Libya | MIDDLE EAST | “Sidr”
- Eugene Zuspan, Albany, New York, USA | N. AMER. CREAMED
- Becky Rasmuuen, Baldwin, Wisconsin, USA | N.AMER. CREAMED
- Suleiman Gazwani, Alaydabi, Saudi Arabia | WORLD DARK | “Tahl”
- Ken Nelson, Karpenisi, Greece | WORLD DARK
- James Powers, Clairfield, Tennessee | N. AMER. WILDFLOWER
- Matt Lee, Birmingham, Alabama, USA | N. AMER. WILDFLOWERLinks to pictures coming soon!
Notes:
The high spike in shipping impacted the number of entries from outside the USA and Canada, such there were approximately equal numbers from N. America (USA and Canada) as came from the rest of the World.
There were not enough specifically labeled monofloral honeys from N America to justify its own Category – so instead we created an “Especial” Category which included the highest scoring honeys outside of their categories. In this case, the Grand Prize Winner was actually the number four scoring honey in “N. Amer. Creamed“ coming into the Finals, yet it won Grand Prize with the 11 judges on our Finals panel. This illustrates the great variation in taste among human beings:)
Runner-up in any category that supplies the Grand Champion automatically assumes that Category Winner.