The Best Ways to Celebrate Small Business Saturday in Your Community
Small Business Saturday in Phoenix What is Small Business Saturday? Small business Saturday is annual event founded in 2010 (by American Express, lol, thanks AMEX). The day/campaign was created to encourage consumers to shop at locally owned business during the holiday season. We can get behind the purpose of that! This Small Business Saturday falls on Saturday November 30th 2024. We will be open at Monsoon Market from 11am-7pm and obviously throwing down with wine and n/a sampling, gift shopping plus gift wrapping to get you holiday ready! Why is “shopping small” important? Shopping small is key for consumers to…
Monsoon Market 3rd Birthday Party Photo Recap
OUR BIG 3 🥳 Thank you for celebrating three years with us PHX! We always have so much fun with you and our 3rd birthday party last Saturday Nov. 2nd, 2024 was one of the BEST! We had tons of friends come through for the event including: @laruephx crepes in the morning@_foreverelizabeth pop-up@facegod__ makeup flash@cosmichour aura photos@sidewalk___chawk live screen printing@chipsarestale violin performance The energy you bring into this vortex of a market is unmatched! We are so grateful & excited for the years to come. YOU GOT BIG LOVE FROM US 💖
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…