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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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We’ve put together a team of experts who have a passion for writing about food and beverages.
Pegasus Bay Prima Donna Pinot Noir – Burgundian Brilliance without the Burgundian Budget.
/in Canterbury, Simon Wood, Wine Articles /by Simon WoodIn New Zealand, we are in the ridiculously fortunate position of having some of the world’s finest wines produced in our back yards, all of which, when compared with the prestige wines of Europe and even Australia remain relatively affordable. While $100 may seem expensive for a bottle of wine, compare that with a similar […]
Wines of the week… the uncertainty of life and wine
/in Joelle Thomson, Uncategorized, Wine Articles /by Joelle ThomsonWine is a sort of paradox in our society, says Baroness Philippine de Rothschild, in the opening lines of the new film, A Seat at the Table, which launches this week in Auckland at the 2019 NZ International Film Festival. “It teaches us patience in a world that goes faster and faster and in which […]