Media Release – Lawson’s Dry Hills show results and sugar cane pulp!
Current release wines from Lawson’s Dry Hills have excelled in the latest round of shows, resulting in gold medals for the 2024 Estate Sauvignon Blanc (Marlborough Wine Show), 2020 Riesling (NZ International Wine Show), Estate Gewurztraminer 2023 (NZ International Wine…
Nelson Winegrowers Chardonnay and Pinot Noir trophies
Each year for about the last 25 years Wine Nelson has held a competition for the Colin Harrison Memorial Trophy…
NZ Ice Cream Awards 2024 & Appleby Garden Bar & Kitchen
It has been another outstanding year for Nelson ice cream, gelato and sorbet makers at the annual NZ Ice Cream…
Iconic Family Wine Businesses – Phil Parker
Phil Parker is an Auckland based wine writer who has his own Fine Wine and Tour company This month, I’m…
Winter Meatball, Roast Carrot and Orange Salad with Maple Syrup and Sourdough Crumb
This Winter Meatball, Roast Carrot and Orange Salad is a delicious and oh-so-easy to make winter salad that is packed…
Letting Local Ingredients Shine
I haven’t gone away, my column has just changed from weekly to monthly so the format of the column is…
Family Business – by Phil Parker
This month, I’m featuring wines from two iconic producers – Sir George Fistonich, and Pegasus Bay’s Donaldson Family. Sir George…
Retirement Village dining
The image of over-cooked, flavourless hospital food or boarding school meals springs to mind when I think of any sort of institutional cooking, but a visit to a modern retirement village blew those perceptions out the window.
Muesli & Co making dreams come true at the Food Factory
Pinu and his wife, Nasrin Mary, own Muesli & Co., an innovative business that has a range of specialist mueslis and granolas in tasty flavours, including a couple designed to use in savoury dishes. More about that later.