Long before the honeybee reached Brazil, the uruçu was already there. A native stingless bee of the Northeast, it was tended by Indigenous peoples and kept in hollow logs beside the house. Its honey is thin, tart and alive. It is taken as medicine and remembered as a taste of the backlands.
Mel de Uruçu follows that honey into the dark. Wild honey and beeswax over fermented grain, warmed by styrax and settled into cedar and amber. Sweetness, but with the hive still in it.
