Beauharnais Carlant – French delicatessen from Strasbourg
Beauharnais is the delicatessen brand of the Alsatian wholesaler Carlant from Strasbourg, on the market for around 25 years. The range includes 5 single-varietal honeys from France and Spain, plus 9 savory terrines, pâtés, and rillettes based on regional recipes. A brand that carefully selects its French gourmet heritage for its customers.
Beauharnais Carlant is a French delicatessen brand from Strasbourg in Alsace. For around 25 years, the company has been bringing French specialties—game pâtés, rillettes, single-varietal honeys, jams, and caramelized nuts—to European tables, carefully selected from the harvest regions and artisanal producers of France and its neighbors.
At nur Gutes, we carry a selection of the honeys and savory specialties from Beauharnais Carlant. A range like a French gourmet shop with its doors wide open. Those who shop here get honey from Provence alongside wild boar pâté and duck pâté with orange—the full spectrum of classic French indulgence under a single brand.
Carlant from Strasbourg, 25 years of French tradition
Strasbourg, the Alsatian capital, has been a meeting point between German thoroughness and French culinary arts for centuries. This is precisely where the delicatessen house Carlant is based—a family business that began around 25 years ago to bundle the best French specialties under one brand: Beauharnais.
As Carlant likes to explain, Beauharnais is not a manufacturer in the classic sense. Instead, the company works with small workshops, apiaries, and regional producers—selecting, testing, bottling, and marketing. This creates a range that brings together the diversity of France under a single brand name, without every individual jar needing its own distribution structure.
The advantage for the customer: when you buy Beauharnais Carlant, you get a carefully curated cross-section of the French world of pleasure—with clear variety labels, IGP seals for protected honeys, and regional recipes for the terrines. The company has built this network over 25 years, and it shows in the details: every jar size is tailored to the typical French moment of enjoyment, from breakfast with honey to an aperitif with a terrine.
Single-varietal honeys and savory specialties in a jar
The range is divided into two clearly separate worlds: classic sweet honeys and savory terrines, pâtés, and rillettes—both following French tradition, both for a well-set table.
Among the honeys, you will find the Lavender Honey Provence IGP with protected geographical indication, the Honey from Provence IGP with herbal hints, the dark Sweet Chestnut Honey from the Pyrenees, the mild honey from Champagne, and the floral orange blossom honey from southern Spain.
Among the savory specialties, there is a selection of venison pâtés with porcini mushrooms, hare and wild boar pâtés, duck pâté with orange, a Country Pâté with Honey and Figs, and Goose Rillettes prepared in the classic French style, in addition to seasonal variations like the Christmas terrine with gingerbread spice.
Fresh liver, regional recipes, IGP seals
What distinguishes Beauharnais from run-of-the-mill wholesale goods is the depth of processing in its savory specialties. The terrines are prepared in small workshops using fresh liver—a significant difference from industrially produced pâtés, which frequently use dried or frozen liver.
The recipes are regionally inspired: the wild boar pâté with cranberries translates the classic German-French game dish into a jar, while the duck pâté with orange draws on a standard recipe from French bourgeois cuisine. The terrines taste great both as a savory bread spread at the breakfast table and as an appetizer served with crunchy salad.
Rillettes is very French. It enjoys a long tradition, especially in the region around Le Mans in the Sarthe—the consistency is clearly different from a terrine: it is fibrous, because unlike a terrine, the meat in rillettes is slowly cooked in its own fat with spices for several hours. Rillettes also contain no liver, which makes them easily recognizable and special on a baguette.
The quality of these small artisanal partners is, Carlant repeatedly emphasizes, the true treasure of the house. They deliver in quantities that would be far too small for industrial companies—but with a level of care you can taste in every bite.
This is also why Beauharnais Carlant does not try to be a full-range supplier, but rather chooses to curate consciously. Over 25 years of relationship-building, during which mutual trust has developed, cannot be replicated in a few months—and that is exactly what the experienced buyer tastes in every Beauharnais product from this house.
For the honeys, the IGP seal "Miel de Provence", registered by the EU since 2005, provides a guarantee of origin for the lavender and Provence varieties; the other varieties come unpasteurized—meaning untreated and with all the natural properties of a genuine single-varietal honey.
From Alsace to German delicatessen tables
Beauharnais Carlant is one of the established providers of top-tier specialties in France. The range can be found in French gourmet addresses, but also increasingly in German, Austrian, and Swiss gourmet shops—wherever the French delicatessen heritage is appreciated and not every beekeeper or workshop can afford their own distribution.
For us at nur Gutes, Beauharnais is an important addition to the single-varietal beekeeper honey from Austria and Germany: where we focus on organic beekeeping history with Neber or Die Honigwanderer, Beauharnais contributes the complementary, classic-French profile—lavender from Provence, sweet chestnut from the Pyrenees, orange blossom from Spain. Three regions, three clearly recognizable varietal characters.
The same applies to the sausage specialties: anyone who serves a Beauharnais pâté for an aperitif has an authentic piece of French food culture on the table—sorted, filled, and bottled by a house that has known exactly what it is doing for 25 years.
Enjoy the Country Pâté with Honey and Figs
If you would like to get to know Beauharnais, we recommend starting with the Country Pâté with Honey and Figs—it combines both worlds of Beauharnais in one jar and tastes great on a slice of sourdough bread as an aperitif, as well as with a glass of Beaujolais or Pinot Noir.
As for the honeys, the Lavender Honey Provence IGP is the classic you can't go wrong with—on a warm croissant, with goat cheese, or simply eaten straight from the spoon. If you prefer something stronger, go for the Sweet Chestnut Honey—a real character that pairs wonderfully with ripe Roquefort or Stilton.
For a French gourmet weekend: three small Beauharnais pâtés, three honeys, a baguette, some salted butter, a few cornichons, a glass of wine, and a little time. A good evening with friends needs nothing more. Let yourself be surprised by how much of France can be contained in a single house—and how beautifully this France can arrive on your kitchen table.
