Frequently Asked Questions FAQ

We're happy to answer your most frequently asked questions here! You can also contact us personally at any time (info@alpuris.com, Tel. +41 21 217 33 62 ).

- What does alpuris do?

With our small family business alpuris, we share our passion for the fascinating variety of honey flavors with other people and increase appreciation for nature, bees, and the work of beekeepers.

To achieve this, we have developed a unique concept with which we offer the best products from Valais to Val Müstair in high-quality, beautiful packaging, individually, as complete gift sets and by subscription.

- What distinguishes alpuris from other providers?

For us, selling honey isn't about maximizing profits, but rather a passion. That's why we don't seek out the cheapest products and then sell them at the highest possible price. We accept low margins and make every effort to present even the smallest quantities of exceptionally good, carefully selected honey (e.g., 8 kg from a young beekeeper with two colonies). Our honey is always bottled and labeled separately according to individual beekeeping locations and is never mixed with other honeys.

Very important for us: our actions only make sense if the entire production and sale are sustainable, i.e. if the producer receives a fair wage, if nature and the bees are treated with care, if the transport and packaging are ecological and if the customers receive the honey at a realistic price.

- What is alpuris doing in the field of ecology?

alpuris avoids plastic packaging, uses recycled materials and uses PVC-free lids even where cheaper alternatives are available.

We transport our small quantities of honey as "passengers" as often as possible, ie when trips are taking place anyway and, for example, a holiday guest in the mountains can take a beekeeper's honey with him on his way home.

All materials such as glasses, packaging, gift boxes, etc., come from these three countries: Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. We don't buy cheap goods from overseas, even though that would be much more profitable.

- Why can't you find Alpuris honey at the big retailers?

There are several reasons for this. For example, we are bothered by the thought of our special honeys, which we have selected with great care and love, sitting on some shelf next to insignificant mass-produced goods, and no one there has any idea what is actually being sold. We also find the pricing policies of many large retailers appalling: How can it be that a product is suddenly 50% cheaper - was the price far too high before, or does the producer have to forgo a fair wage??? We simply lack the appreciation for the products and the producers - either a product has a fair price, in which case it can be justified, or something is wrong. Furthermore, the quantities we have available are too small to offer the products on a mass scale and everywhere - small is beautiful!