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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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Can you name your top NZ Pinot Noirs?
/in Central Otago, Joelle Thomson, Wine Articles /by Joelle ThomsonIn this article Joëlle Thomson says Ray writes to ask for recommendations of the best Pinot Noirs to drink when he visits New Zealand in early 2020. Where do I start? We are spoilt for choice in New Zealand Pinot Noir today because the quality has risen astronomically in the past 10 years. Not only […]
New Season’s Wines from Nelson
/in Neil Hodgson, Nelson, Wine Articles /by Neil HodgsonAt the risk of repeating myself I love this time of the year, everything in the garden is starting to sprout into life again after being dormant during the winter, the daylight hours are longer, daylight saving has started, the sun is warming us once again and most importantly the first of the 2019 vintage […]