Published NZ Herald Sat 16 Jan 2016 What? How did it suddenly become the middle of January already? To ease the shock I suggest reaching for some tastebud-distracting deliciousness that’ll send you back to September in seconds flat. Mansfield & Marsh Methode Traditionnelle Sparkling Wine NV $14.95 This is my new favourite bargain bubbly. … Read More
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Spicy reds are drops to savour
Published NZME Regional Newspapers Tue 12 Jan 2016 By now so many of you will be back at work, watching the clock and making little sculptures out of blu-tac at your desk. You’ll be shuffling paper, sticking PostIt notes to things and walking purposefully from your desk to the staff loos every 30 minutes … Read More
Three decadent dessert wines
Published NZ Herald Sat 9 Jan 2016 Just when you’re thinking about hauling your carcass into some active wear and going for a jog, wait, shuffle around the block; you see a wine column singing the praises of those luxuriously decadent dessert wines you love so much. Curses… Johanneshof Noble Late Harvest Marlborough … Read More
New style, plenty of substance
Published NZME Regional Newspapers Tue 5 Jan 2016 Bubbles causes a real raquet… For the next fortnight, fans of backhands, forehands, faults and aces, loves, deuces, advantages, serves, volley’s, outs and on-court tantrums will be going bats and balls over the ASB Classic in Auckland. Usuallly tennis is the domain of pimms and cucumber … Read More