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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.
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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Epic Blue
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Enter Epic, who have just released ‘Epic Blue’. With 70% less carbs and a healthy 4.8% ABV, this drop is anything but sad or humourless.
Hunter’s Wines ‘Offshoot’ Marlborough Pinot Noir 2019
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Perhaps seen as a NZ Beaujolais alternative, this is light and charming, but has some serious Pinot chops
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Porta Via
/in Neil Hodgson, Nelson, Restaurants, Uncategorized, Wine Articles /by Neil HodgsonWhen the owners of Casa del Vino decided to close the doors of their iconic little wine specialty store my heart sank more than just a little, it was a very precious fine wine outlet among a plethora of large, corporate-like booze stores and supermarkets. However, the owners of ARDEN decided to take on the […]
YUM Granola
/in Neil Hodgson, Nelson, Producers, Retailers /by Neil HodgsonI first came across YUM Granola back in 2016 and wrote about them not long after I discovered their great breakfast products, a lot has happened with this business in the last four years so I figured it was time to catch up with founders Sarah Hedger and Mike Cowlin again to see if they […]