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Top Tastes is designed to help you find the best food and beverage venues and products; whether you want delicious fish chips, beautiful café food in a winery setting, finely crafted formal dining, food ideas, wine reviews or cocktail recipes this is your guide to the best New Zealand has to offer.
Top Tastes was created by Neil Hodgson and managed by him, he has invited other writers to contribute to the site, this means more regional information will be added as time goes by. You will find a range of opinions, reviews and recipes from people who know their stuff when it comes to food and beverage.
Only reviews written by this select group will be published on the site (you are welcome to leave comments of course) so you will be able to trust the review – no fake reviews, no ranting, just good information to help you choose great things to eat and drink as well as the best places to eat out.
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Neil Hodgson2023-11-27 13:21:422023-11-27 13:21:42The Apple Shed Kitchen & Bar
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Neil Hodgson2023-10-18 17:13:322023-10-30 17:29:45Dancing Sands DistilleryFEATURED ARTICLES
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Neil Hodgson2023-11-27 13:21:422023-11-27 13:21:42The Apple Shed Kitchen & Bar
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Neil Hodgson2023-10-11 11:40:322023-10-16 11:55:51Anchorage Wines- Stripping back helps Motueka Winemakers and Growers strike gold
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Neil Hodgson2023-10-04 11:26:262023-10-16 11:40:17Heke Homemade Herbals
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Neil Hodgson2023-09-29 12:06:212023-09-29 12:06:21Lip-smacking food from down under the hood
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Neil Hodgson2023-09-20 09:18:052023-09-29 09:44:55Great Scutt: New label wine for the ages
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Neil Hodgson2023-09-06 09:02:522023-09-29 09:17:07North EateryTOP WINES TASTINGS
Anchorage Sauvignon Blanc 2023
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The concentration of flavour is both impressive and satisfying. The wine delivers outstanding value for money.
Blackenbrook Nelson Sauvignon Blanc 2021
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This is another beautiful wine from Blackenbrook Wines that exhibits the varietal purity we have come to expect from the Schwarzenbach family
Seifried Estate Nelson Sauvignon Blanc 2020
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Intense, weighty, concentrated and flavoursome, this multi-trophy winning wine is an exceptional wine at an exceptional price.
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The Apple Shed Kitchen & Bar
/in Neil Hodgson, Nelson, New Zealand, Regions, Restaurants, Uncategorized /by Neil HodgsonThe Apple Shed Kitchen & Bar on the Mapua wharf has been a mainstay during the development of the area into the outstanding locale it is today. From the days when Dennis and Sharon Crawford started smoking fish in a run-down wharf building that had a business next door selling live crabs to the beautifully […]
Dancing Sands Distillery
/in Neil Hodgson, Nelson, New Zealand, Regions, Spirits Articles /by Neil HodgsonThere are two very good distilleries in Golden Bay, one is Dancing Sands and they have just released a tasty Lychee Gin. The Lazy Days Lychee Gin is “an ode to those days where you ‘should be’ doing lots but are deciding, stuff it, adult responsibilities can wait while you do whatever you want” according […]