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Neil Hodgson2020-06-10 14:06:422020-06-11 14:19:06Nelson Farmers MarketTOP WINES TASTINGS
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
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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The Taylor Fladgate partnership will be releasing a Classic Vintage for 2018.
/in Neil Hodgson, News, Portugal, Uncategorized, Wine Articles /by Neil HodgsonTaylor’s has announced that it will release a classic Taylor’s Vintage Port from 2018. Comments are as follows: Adrian Bridge, Managing Director: “Although a Classic declaration normally only happens about three times a decade, the exceptional run of years has meant that Taylor’s has been able to make a third in a row. This is […]
Kismet Whiskey Tasting and Hopgood’s Food Pairings
/in Aaron Ballantyne, Neil Hodgson, Nelson, Nick Widley, Restaurants, Spirits Articles /by Neil HodgsonIn keeping with my responsible drinking mantra of ‘drink less but drink better’ I have been enjoying the occasional quality whisky recently. Whisky has been my go-to spirit for many years and to make sure I don’t drink too much I keep a bottle in the cupboard that costs a couple of hundred dollars and […]