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Margaret River - Boutique Oz
Western Australia is enormous - bigger than Texas enormous. Bigger than Alaska. Actually bigger than Texas and Alaska put together. Most of WA is entirely...
Winery of the Week - Chalk Hill
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...
Craggy Range Prestige wines
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...
The Problem with Cork
Cork has a long history in the wine world – used by the Greeks and Romans going back to the 5th Century BC – but...
Austrian Wine Tasting
The wines of Austria are virtually unknown in New Zealand - strange when we realise that at the end of WWI Austria boasted the third...
Wine Food Pairing - Wineseeker Staff Party
We have a small tradition at Wineseeker, a couple times a year we have a party for our staff, Michael & Katie cook up a...
Wines to Cellar
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. ...
Silly Season
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...
10 Lessons from Europe
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...