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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 professional 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.
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Joelle Thomson2019-12-18 15:13:232019-12-18 15:16:05Joelle Thomson’s Top 12 sparkling wines of 2019
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The great bubbles let-down
/0 Comments/in Simon Wood, Wine Articles /by Neil HodgsonFor the last 25 years, I’ve been telling anyone who would listen (and, some who wouldn’t) that ‘Montana’ Lindauer Brut is the best value wine in the country, bar none. A gentle, friendly, hugely approachable, moderately complex brut Champagne style for under $10? Buy it all, I’d say! Sadly, this is no longer the case […]
Low and Slow BBQ Cooking
/0 Comments/in Neil Hodgson, Nelson, Producers /by Neil HodgsonWith the stunning weather we have had around the Nelson region over the holiday season our barbecue, like many others, has been getting a serious workout. Even more so since we started experimenting with low and slow cooking on our new Weber charcoal-fired bbq. Rather than buying gifts we don’t need for each other at […]