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Rewarewa Honey: The Best Tasting Honey in the World
Our Rewarewa Honey won Grand First Prize in the 10th Black Jar International Honey Tasting Contest held in Asheville, USA. So our Rewarewa Honey is now “The Best Tasting Honey in the World”.
In 2022, our Rewarewa Honey won GOLD at the London Honey Awards and back here in New Zealand, also won Silver at the Outstanding Food Producers Awards in 2021.
Think of our Rewarewa Honey as “beyond Mānuka” – another exciting unique New Zealand honey. Our Rewarewa Honey is packed full of beneficial properties, with a deep colour and a rich, full flavour harking back to its origins in the pristine forests of Te Urewera.
The Rewarewa Tree
Our Rewarewa Honey is made by our hard-working bees from the Rewarewa tree (Knightia excelsa), which is our indigenous honeysuckle tree in New Zealand. The Rewarewa tree grows in groves in well-lit parts of our forest, and stands above the forest shrubbery as a fine tree of up to 30 metres in height.
The flowers of the Rewarewa tree are clustered together on stalks with about 50-80 flowers in each cluster. The flower is designed for pollination by birds such as kōkō (the Tūhoe name for tūī) and bellbird, so it gives a bounty of nectar which our bees find to then make into our delicious Rewarewa Honey.
Traditionally, the nectar of the Rewarewa tree was collected by our ancestors for a sweetener as it contains about 45% sugars – a true honeysuckle! The inner bark was used for bandaging over wounds to check bleeding and help healing. So there’s the clue that the honey from the Rewarewa tree will have healing properties.
The Benefits of Rewarewa Honey
The Benefits of Rewarewa HoneyIndeed, research has found that Rewarewa Honey has a range of properties, from antibacterial to anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory effect. Research continues on just what gives Rewarewa Honey these special properties, and we can’t wait to find out!
There’s some things though that we can tell you about the properties of Rewarewa Honey. It is known to have the highest peroxide activity of NZ honey which helps in healing and fighting bacteria. Rewarewa Honey is also high in anti-oxidants for dealing with free radicals in the body, and it has been found to have strong anti-inflammatory properties. And, yes you know this, it is great for energy and general well-being.
‘Raw’ means unpasteurised and free from heat processing. This raw honey is packed by hand using gravity with great love and care so that we don’t use the heat and pumps to move the honey along automated systems, like other honey producers do. As a result, this raw honey has all its goodness and properties right here in the pail, for you and your family.
Our Rewarewa Honey is also available in 250g and 110g. You will also find it in our range of gift-packs suitable for the special people in your life.
Use daily straight from the pail, or in tonic drinks. Rewarewa is especially favoured by chefs for use in savoury and dessert dishes to create culinary delights – see our Honey Recipes for ideas!
Rā (verified owner) –
I was scouting around online looking for rewarewa honey and came across this website. I whakapapa to Tuhoe through my Nanny so felt like this would be a good place to spend my money.
I felt really looked after by the team after requesting an item that was sold out and learning it would be a 3 week wait. Haylee kept in contact with me over that period to keep me updated on the order so I felt well looked after. 3 weeks later, I’m ripping into the package just to get a taste of this goodness lol. I find the deep rich flavour is perfect for marinating venison. Yum!
Brenda Tahi, CEO Manawa Honey NZ –
Love it Ra. Thanks for this korero. Awesome to know we have connected with you with your Tūhoe whakapapa. Oh and to hear you use it for marinating venison – that’s a perfect combination of Te Urewera bounty! Great to hear that Haylee did a fab job looking after you – that’s Haylee! Hope you keep connected with us Ra… Nga mihi naku na Brenda
Tess (verified owner) –
Me and the kids love this honey. Nice flavor and easy to spread
Brenda Tahi, CEO Manawa Honey NZ –
Cool Tess! Glad you have found our Rewarewa Honey and that is really suits you. This honey won Best Honey in the World in 2021 so you are in good company lol. If this honey sets so it becomes hard to spread then just dig into it with a knife and scrape and move that knife around until you get the honey moving into a spreadable consistency. Enjoy! Nga mihi naku na Brenda
Achintha (verified owner) –
I recently purchased this raw Rewarewa honey, and I couldn’t be happier with the quality! It has a smooth texture and a perfectly balanced sweetness that tastes nothing like the overly processed honey from the store.
I’ve been using it with avocados, yoghurt and sometimes directly just a spoonful.
Highly recommend for anyone looking for authentic, high-quality honey!
Brenda Tahi, CEO Manawa Honey NZ –
Kia ora Achintha50 – love to hear how happy you are with our raw Rewarewa Honey – sounds great to go with avocados – we need to try this! Welcome to Manawa – cheers nga mihi naku na Brenda
David (verified owner) –
I bought the 3kg pot of Rewarewa Honey and absolutely rapt. Such a delicious honey and great to buy directly from Tūhoe and to support their kaupapa. Yum!!!
Brenda Tahi, CEO Manawa Honey NZ –
Kia ora David – oh cool – this is great feedback. Love it that you’re rapt with the Rewarewa Honey. Rewarewa has won a number of awards on taste – the big one back in 2021 when it won outright the World’s Best Tasting Honey Contest. We love that you also appreciate supporting our kaupapa behind Manawa Honey NZ – nga mihi naku na Brenda Tahi, CEO