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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 âThe Best Tasting Honey in the Worldâ.
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.
So you know this is a honey of outstanding quality.
Think of our Rewarewa Honey as âbeyond MÄnukaâ â 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 kĹkĹ (the TĹŤhoe name for tĹŤÄŤ) 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 â a true honeysuckle! The inner bark was used for bandaging over wounds to check bleeding and help healing. So thereâs 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 canât wait to find out!
Thereâs 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.
Use our Rewarewa Honey daily, straight from the jar, or in tonic drinks. Rewarewa Honey is especially favoured by chefs for use in savoury and dessert dishes to create culinary delights!
Our Rewarewa Honey is also available in 500g and 110g. You will also find it in our range of gift-packs suitable for the special people in your life.
Vern Hines (verified owner) –
When you stated it’s ‘The best tasting honey in the world” I though… yeah whatever!!…….Well bloody hell!!….. it actually is! This is the nicest honey I have ever tried and I will be buying it regularly from now on. Well done guys.
Brenda Tahi, CEO Manawa Honey NZ –
Kia ora Vern – thank you for your comment – it’s terrific to hear that you appreciate the award-winning taste of our Rewarewa Honey. Yes, our Rewarewa Honey is consistently recognised at the World’s Best Tasting Honey Contest held in Asheville NC USA each year. This honey was outright Grand First Prize Winner in 2021 and then in 2023 it got to the final Top 30. Love these results eh. Cheers nga mihi naku noa na Brenda Tahi, CEO Manawa Honey NZ.
paula cox –
Beautiful. Such an incredible tasting honey. Very versatile, i.e. easy to spread on toast – wow!
But also great in cooking and brilliant in hot drinks.
We buy your honey for health benefits. And wouldn’t buy anywhere else.
Thank you so much for the love and hard work you put in this, and for serving your community with such aroha.
ngÄ mihi
Brenda Tahi, CEO Manawa Honey NZ –
Kia ora ano Paula. Your review is so encouraging. Yes Rewarewa is a brilliant honey – it has won Grand First Prize in World’s Best Tasting Honey contest in 2021 and been in the top 30 again since then. Amazing for a honey all the ways from Te Urewera to achieve this. And yes it is so versatile so enjoy! One of the key reasons why we set our honey business is for creating jobs and developing our people in our community so it’s great that you can see our ultimate purpose – thank you for this particular feedback as it means a lot to us. Nga mihi naku na Brenda
Mo –
Is your 250g Rewarewa honey raw and unheated, the same as the 3kg pail? If any warming is used during jarring, what’s the maximum temperature?”
Brenda Tahi, CEO Manawa Honey NZ –
Kia ora Mohammad – greetings from Aotearoa NZ. Thank you for your query about our jar honey and pail Rewarewa honey. I have responded to your query by email but to also share this here:
o Our rewarewa honey in jar is creamed â that is, it is processed differently to raw honey (soft-set or natural) by:
ď§ Heating to about 55 degrees C
ď§ Fine filtration
ď§ Adding a small amount of fine-crystalled starter
ď§ Stirring slowly for 24 hours or more.
Regarding our other honeys:
o Kanuka Honey is natural raw in jar
o MÄnuka Honey and TÄwari are usually soft-set raw honey but sometimes creamed in jar.
o Note that with some honeys such as MÄnuka and TÄwari, the soft-set raw and creamed are very similar, and we have been quietly transitioning from creamed honey in jar to soft-set raw in jar but we have not as made this evident on our labelling. Rewarewa is different â it can come up with crunchy grains as a natural raw honey and still quite grainy as a soft-set raw so we still produce this honey in jar as a creamed honey.
Please see our blog about raw honey https://www.manawahoney.co.nz/blog/raw-honey-guide/ which contains some more information about raw honey.
OK I hope this information helps clarify these matters for you Mohammed and hoping you are keeping safe in your part of the world.
Cheers – nga mihi naku noa na Brenda Tahi, CEO