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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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Phil Parker2020-05-26 15:47:502020-05-26 15:48:22It’s all about the Taste.
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Aaron Ballantyne2020-04-26 16:14:462020-04-26 16:15:47Fig leaf panna cotta
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Neil Hodgson2020-04-22 16:03:242020-04-24 16:42:06Lock down recipe – left overs and pantry items
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Neil Hodgson2020-04-14 16:21:272020-04-26 16:42:44Fig Recipe & WineTOP WINES TASTINGS
St Pauli Pinot Noir 2019
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Add a twist of sweet liquorice, delicious acidity and silky tannins and you have one very serious Pinot Noir.
St Pauli Vineyards Chardonnay 2019
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I love this style of chardonnay, rich and packed with flavour but with delightfully fresh acidity and not a hint of overt sulfides in sight, they are just there for complexity.
Seifried Family Winemakers Pinot Gris 2019
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Intense, ripe pear flavours are wrapped around beautiful juicy acidity and enhanced with gentle spice notes
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/in Phil Parker, Wine Articles, WIne Tastings /by Phil ParkerAre you a supertaster? Having been a wine tour guide, plus doing wine writing gigs for over twenty years, I have observed literally thousands of people tasting thousands of wines. And I have noticed that they do fall into two general categories. So, here is my own take on why people like certain wines. And […]
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/in Aaron Ballantyne, Cafe's, Neil Hodgson, Recipes, Restaurants /by Neil HodgsonI’m loving the freedom associated with level 2 restrictions and as long as everyone continues to be sensible, follows the rules around no large gatherings and keeps washing their hands religiously then hopefully level 1 won’t be too many weeks away. While we are waiting to be able to mix with large groups again we […]