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Last time: Picky Hydrate Orange & Mango, this time: Wai Mānuka.

300mL glass bottle. I’ve ordered this online before, but this one came from New World.

This is very much what it says on the label: sparkling honey water. There’s lemon juice in the ingredients, but you’d never pick it as a flavour - which makes this more pure than the Barrier Buzz drinks, where there’s always some other flavour bolted on as well. If what you want is a sweet sparkling water with a strong honey taste threaded all the way through, this does exactly that and nothing else.

It’s not something I’d reach for all the time, though. I’ve found it a very good drink to take overseas as a gift from New Zealand - it’s unmistakably from here, and it travels well in the glass bottle. I’ve had the large bottle as well, and that’s too much unless you’re sharing. I’ve never tried the cans, which I think are newer.

Interesting, and probably healthy, given it’s Mānuka honey. But good for occasions rather than everyday. 7.8/10.