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Wine reviews, recommendations and tasting notes from Bite, Canvas, Viva and the New Zealand Herald.
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Put your $35 to good use
Think about all the other things you could buy for $35 today ... a half-leg wax at a reputable salon or maybe even a warrant of fitness on special, but they...
Gift one of these bottles to dad
Top up your usual Father's Day gift with one of these outstanding wines. They're especially tailored for the taste buds of the thinking man. Crown Range...
Top three celebrity sauvignons
We’re all about celebrity sauvignon this week. From much-loved bards and talk-show talent to local heroes, it’s all on show here… Sam Hunt Marlborough 2014...
Spice up your life
Looking for ways to inject some much-needed spice into your life this weekend? All you need are these three thrillers... Zonin Valpolicella Superiore Ripasso...
Three wines with talent
Some wines have the unique ability to stay in place on the palate; intact and extended to the very end. These wines have exactly that talent. Odyssey...
Lovely overseas reds
While it’s always a good idea to opt for a local offering, if you feel like treating yourself to a good bottle of red there’s nothing stopping you from...
South Australian shiraz picks
It’s called shiraz in the Lucky Country, but here in Godzone we’ve stuck to the traditional name of “syrah”. However, despite being made from exactly the...
Perfectly grown 'single-vineyard' wines
Making great wine is simple, just bung some vines in a patch of dirt and the magic will happen, right? Um, wrong. The reason these “single-vineyard” wines...
Wines with cocoa character
Love and marriage, horse and carriage — if you don’t put much stock in this saying you’ve clearly never enjoyed chocolate and red wine in the same mouthful....
Perfect pinot noirs to pair with duck
Something fundamentally fabulous occurs when you eat duck, then take a sip of pinot noir. Whether it’s casseroled, crispy-skinned, packed in pancakes ......