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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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Neudrof Moutere Pinot Gris 2019
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Simply packed with delicious fruit flavours and fermented to off-dry this delivers complexity in bucket loads
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.
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Best Friday Night Takeaways
/in Cafe's, Neil Hodgson, Nelson, Restaurants, Retailers /by Neil HodgsonI can’t wait until the Covid-19 restrictions ease a little so we can get back to some sense of a functioning community again but the way local restaurants in particular have adapted to doing business differently during Level 3 restrictions has impressed me hugely. The optimism shown by the operators I have been talking with […]
Food businesses open for takeaways & Hopgood’s Smoked Fish Pate
/in Neil Hodgson, Nelson, Producers, Recipes, Restaurants /by Neil HodgsonMany businesses have changed the way they operate so they can start trading in a small way during Covid-19 Level 3 restrictions and food businesses are right at the front of the queue. While many restaurants and cafes have started selling their delicious food as takeaways or are delivering direct to your door others, like […]