The history of Bresca Dorada began in the 80’s in the Muravera countryside in south-eastern Sardinia, when a student and an unemployed friend, Enrico Deiana and Paolo Melis, both keen on the countryside and bees, decided to take up beekeeping together.
When they found these 7 hectares of land scented with the Mediterranean maquis, they had no doubts. This was the ideal place to cultivate their future. Bees, honey and other products from the bee hive. And it’s where the headquarters of their company is still located
The company was called Bresca Dorada, from two Sardinian words: Bresca which means honeycomb and Dorada which means golden, the colour of honey.
A farsighted choice, as the company now produces and distributes many other quality products and their name has become synonym of growth, of painstaking work, and of something precious and loved.
In the first years, Bresca Dorada was about honey but also about agritourism and true to Sardinian tradition, guests were offered myrtle liqueur at the end of every meal. This liqueur, a symbol of the island, was homemade by Paolo and Enrico in small quantities. Every evening, that myrtle liqueur was a success and the demand of tourists wanting to take a bottle home grew year by year. So they got the idea to increase production in order to sell it but only if they kept the promise made to themselves, that they would always maintain the artisan quality that made it so appreciated.
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