A BRAT’s guide to PHX!
Charli XCX in Phoenix this weekend?! So you’re going to see the Charli XCX and Troye Sivan SWEAT tour in Phoenix this weekend? Here’s a BRAT’s guide to Phoenix, from Monsoon Market. Join us at Monsoon Market Friday night, 10/11 from 6-9pm for a LIVE Brat Butt screen printing event with Sidewalk Chawk. Get your own one-of-a-kind Brat Butt print while dancing to DJ’s and enjoying a natural wine tasting. Grab your own bottle to take home and pregame the SWEAT show with. Wake up babe, time to sweat it out at Groundwrk Saturday morning (the day before the big…
natural wine at monsoon market | October 2024
You know us, always drinking and talking about the best natural wines in Phoenix. Check out the latest natural wine pick from us at Monsoon Market! These natural wines are always straight out of our Natty & Nice Wine Club, now on the shelves ready for you to pick up and enjoy yourselves. Fangareggi Selvadeg Bianco Pet-Nat 2021 Region: Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Grapes: Pignoletto Vitivinicola Fangareggi is a generations-old family-run farm in central Italy, with a history of growing Lambrusco grapes since the 1800s. The current stewards of the land, Giuseppe and Roberto, grew up in the vineyards and resumed…
The Official Guide to Healthy Snacks, the Monsoon Market Way
We consider ourselves snack connoisseurs – you name it, we’ve tried it. If a snack has made it onto our shelves, that’s means our team has touched it, tasted it, loved it, and most likely connected with the brand’s founder as well. We carry packaged snacks of all kinds and we keep a wide variety so we always have the perfect recommendation for people coming in with specific requests. Often, people come in looking for healthy snacks to eat, so we thought we’d put together a guide to healthy snacks and what that actually looks like at the market. Read…
Monsoon Market’s Graza Olive Oil Review
What’s the deal with Graza Olive Oil? If you’ve been on the internet for more than 5 seconds lately, you’ve probably heard about Graza olive oil. The brand has seemingly overnight gathered a cult-like following, full of foodies, influencers, and graphic designers who are a sucker for sublime packaging. You may be wondering… what’s all the commotion about olive oil? What makes other olive oils more or less superior? We’re here to spill the tea and put you on why we think Graza reigns supreme. Benefits of Using Graza Olive Oil in Cooking Cheaper olive oil may seem like the…
The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Orange Wine at our Phoenix Wine Shop
We’re certainly not experts, but we’ve learned a thing or two about orange wine in our two and a half years of tasting, selling, and chatting all things natural wine at the market (emphasis on tasting – we are very thorough with our market research!).
what is natural wine?
some insight from your favorite Phoenix natural wine shop, Monsoon Market What is natural wine, you may ask…. whispers of “biodynamic farming” and “orange wine” may have been uttered by a friend or colleague that leave you contemplating questions like what actually is in the wine we have been drinking for years? What constitutes a natural wine selection from an unnatural one? How can you tell the difference? Where do you go to find natural wine? Natural wine is, more than anything else, a mindset and careful approach to winemaking. You’ll find winemakers all around the world who believe in…
natural wine | June 2024
You know us, always drinking and talking about the best natural wine in Phoenix. Check out the latest natural wine pick from us at Monsoon Market! These natural wines are always straight out of our Natty & Nice Wine Club, now on the shelves ready for you to pick up and enjoy yourselves. Müller-Ruprecht Rot Region: Pfalz, Germany Grapes: Lemberger We’re featuring a German wine that showcases the experimental side of natural winemaking, a bottle that has been described as giving the “spiritual middle finger”. Weingut Müller-Reprecht is a 400-year-old family estate currently run by a young couple that has…
Best Non-Alcoholic Drinks of 2024
It’s Dry January at Monsoon Market What is Dry January? Last year Misch participated in Dry January, or “Damp Jan” as we sometimes called her (it’s hard to cut out alcohol entirely when you own a natural wine shop). Being dry in January essentially means saying “no thanks” to alcohol for the entire month. While the impact varies from person to person, some typical advantages include: It’s really important to note that these benefits are not universal, and everyone can respond differently. Additionally, if someone has concerns about their relationship with alcohol or experiences withdrawal symptoms, it’s cool to seek…
Monsoon Market updated* 2024 ins & outs
If you’ve been following along, you might remember our 2024 Ins & Outs list that we posted at the end of last year. A lot has happened since then. Misch and Koral launched a podcast, Two Valley Girls LLC, and a YouTube channel, Monsoon World, that capture all of their adventures around Phoenix (and beyond!) and the cool people they get to work with every day. We hosted two pool parties, a Valentine’s Day drag show at Quartz, a pottery class with Pip Coffee & Clay, a dance party, collage nights, Mocktail Monday non-alcoholic drink tastings, monthly yoga classes, two…
Monsoon Market 2024 ins & outs
Without further ado, here is the official 2024 Monsoon Market Ins & Outs list! It’s been a long and eventful year, and making this list was a fun way for us to get excited about what’s to come. This list reflects the ways we have learned from past mistakes (e.g., forgetting to drink enough water, wearing clothes with faulty zippers to work) and the things we would like to do more of (e.g., supporting our friends’ businesses, dreaming big, supporting the scene). It’s important to note this list is quite silly and unserious. We certainly don’t mean to suggest that…
Mother’s Day natural wine gift guide 2024
Mother’s Day is right around the corner (literally, Sunday May 12th), and we know you all are probably thinking “wait it is??!!” No matter how hard we try, it sneaks up on us every year, but it’s no excuse not to give the hard working and amazing women in our lives some extra TLC. We’ve heard through the grape vine (pun intended) that this Mother’s Day, all she wants is some peace and quiet, and a delicious glass of natural wine. (Even Forbes wrote about natural wine for Mother’s Day!) You’re in luck, because we have a banger bottle curation…
wine we’re drinking | August 2024
New natural wine picks from us at Monsoon Market! These natural wines are straight out of our Natty & Nice Wine Club, now on the shelves ready for you to pick up and enjoy yourselves! CAROLINA GATTI La Bolla de Fugazi Region: Veneto, Italy Grapes: Cab Sauv, Raboso, Merlot Our girl Carolina is back! We loved her wine from last month so much that we decided to follow it up with another. We already gave you her whole story, so we’ll just include the highlights to refresh your memory. Carolina Gatti is an unconventional and revolutionary force in the Prosecco…