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Discover the 2025 Mānuka Special Reserve, a limited-release Christchurch mead made from pure New Zealand Mānuka honey. A premium honey wine expressing the native flora of Aotearoa.

A deep dive into the long history of mead as medicine. From Greek physicians to medieval monks, discover how honey wine was used as a healing drink for thousands of years.

Mead is made from honey, not grain, and contains virtually no purines. Here’s how that matters for uric acid and why some people find it easier to tolerate than beer.

Mead begins with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the alcohol world.