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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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What I Drank in The Holidays
/in Articles, Auckland, Canterbury, Hawkes Bay, Marlborough, New Zealand, Phil Parker, Wine Articles /by Phil ParkerOur Auckland summer keeps going and going and long may it last. Grapes love dry, hot weather – so bring it on. Most folks will now be in denial, having returned to work after the summer holiday break. Summer is my busy season in wine tourism – driving people to drink in Kumeu and Waiheke […]
Some challenges for the 2019 wine vintage
/in Eats, Neil Hodgson, Nelson, New Zealand, Regions, Uncategorized, Wine Articles /by Neil HodgsonAs I spent a little time talking with wine-grape growers in recent weeks it has become even more obvious climate change is making life interesting for this industry. In early January I wrote about some of the challenges climate change is delivering and in that column I talked about the three ex-tropical cyclones that impacted […]