Blog posts

Margaret River - Boutique Oz

By katie@wineseeker.co.nz

Western Australia is enormous - bigger than Texas enormous.  Bigger than Alaska.  Actually bigger than Texas and Alaska put together.  Most of WA is entirely...

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Winery of the Week - Chalk Hill

By The Team Wineseeker

Winery of the Week - CHALK HILL For this week's tastings we are hopping over the ditch to taste South Australia.  McLaren Vale is barely...

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Craggy Range Prestige wines

By michael@wineseeker.co.nz

Craggy Range is one of the most widely respected Hawkes Bay wineries, one visit to their winery and restaurant by the Tuki Tuki river with...

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The Problem with Cork

By Michael Hutton

Cork has a long history in the wine world – used by the Greeks and Romans going back to the 5th Century BC – but...

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Austrian Wine Tasting

By michael@wineseeker.co.nz

The wines of Austria are virtually unknown in New Zealand - strange when we realise that at the end of WWI Austria boasted the third...

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Wine Food Pairing - Wineseeker Staff Party

By Michael Hutton

We have a small tradition at Wineseeker, a couple times a year we have a party for our staff, Michael & Katie cook up a...

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Wines to Cellar

By michael@wineseeker.co.nz

As a follow-up to my last blog about Cellaring Wine in NZ, this update is about different kinds of wines and their suitability for cellaring. ...

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Silly Season

By michael@wineseeker.co.nz

  Christmas is upon us, whether we would risk it or not. This usually means copious amounts of good food and ample quantities of wine. The...

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10 Lessons from Europe

By michael@wineseeker.co.nz

1. France makes possibly the best pastry, foie gras, and cheese in the world. 2. Better to buy cheap wine than expensive coffee (honestly, the...

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