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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.
Partners in life and in wine – Big Sky Vineyard
/in Joelle Thomson, Wairarapa, Wine Articles /by Joelle ThomsonIt’s a small winery with a big name. Literally. Big Sky Wines in the Wairarapa has a new cellar and production facility which has just finished construction, 20 steps from the home of the owners, Jeremy Corban and Katherine Jacobs. The couple always planned to build their own winery to give them a closer connection […]
Mahi Wines – Start the Revolution!
/in Marlborough, Simon Wood, Wine Articles /by Simon WoodRecently, I was extremely lucky to be invited to lunch at the excellent Alpino restaurant in Cambridge, to try new offerings from the legendary Brian Bicknell’s Mahi Wines. Brian’s philosophy is to make food friendly wines with minimal intervention – wines that while excellent early drinkers, will also stand the test of time. All Mahi […]