If you follow news about food you will be aware that the new free Trade Agreement with the UK means cheesemakers won’t be able to use the name ‘Feta’ in nine years time. Feta is such a generic cheese style…
Flavio Donati and Flavia Spena set up ViaVio Cheese at the end of 2016 and, after five years ViaVio is now an artisanal cheese business that has grown into a premium cheesemaker supplying restaurants and retail outlets around New Zealand…
On Friday, March 26 at 6:30pm, Juliet will be hosting a tasting at the Northern Club in Auckland. She will be expertly pairing some of New Zealand’s finest artisan cheeses with selected wines, followed by salad and dessert. We hope…
A number of products cross my desk that are really useful but don’t really fit the Taste of Nelson theme of this column, occasionally there’s one that I think is worth telling you about, and this is one such product,…
At home we tend to eat a reasonable amount of vegetarian food, things like salads and risotto regularly appear on our dinner table but I am absolutely certain the one thing that will stop me ever becoming vegan is cheese.…
Located at the Grape Escape complex on the corner of McShane Road and the Appleby Highway The Junction is a little grocery store providing a beautiful range of wonderful artisan food products for you and me to enjoy. The store…
Kaikoura Cheese may be based in Marlborough but their wonderful cheeses have been available at the Nelson Saturday Market and Nelson Farmers Market for a number of years, their cheeses also appear on many restaurant and café menus in this…
One of our favourite cheese makers, Cranky Goat, may be based in the Marlborough Sounds but you will find them at the Nelson Market every Saturday so I think that qualifies them to appear in this column. Cranky Goat Limited…
“All Methode Tradionnelle is sparkling wine but not all sparkling wine is Methode Traditionnelle.” Non Vintage Methode Traditionnelle is the true definition of a house style. Produced using a base wine, which is a blend of multiple vintages, the highly…