I know, own experience would have been better, but here is written something about the honey as well ...
Edit: I actually forgot (the trip was already quite some years ago) that I had eaten some of the honey which my father brought home after the journey: it was rather liquid, light, fresh and with a smack of lemon taste ...
Very enlightening. So, from the taste you describe and from the article you refer to, I suppose you did not taste the red variety - and fly off to goodness knows where!
I always wondered about the rhododendron effect (heard it was toxic). Now I've learned it's "medicinal" I shall worry less about the hives on a local farm, placed very close to the rhododendron shrubs. It may explain, however, why it tastes a little heady.