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'Like putting a magic spell in my mouth': The Spinoff's 2018 food and drink highs
The Spinoff Food whānau and friends reveal the best things they put in their gobs this year.
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The Spinoff Food whānau and friends reveal the best things they put in their gobs this year.
A new release from Sawmill has Alice praising the haze, and Henry plans his Christmas around an excellent-value, full-flavoured pinot.
Alice drinks outside her comfort zone, and Henry enjoys a young, fruity pinot gris named after a Martinborough legend.
In a video filmed for a conference the health minister was scheduled to open but then withdrew from, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver implores David Clark to pass a sugar tax.
Dietary Requirements is The Spinoff’s monthly podcast in which we eat, drink and talk about it too, with special thanks to Freedom Farms and Fine Wine Delivery Co.
Not feeling the festive spirit? Get yourself one of these bad boys and relive your childhood (but with added booze).
Just like the New Zealand wine industry it champions, Fine Wine Delivery Co has been through quite a journey over the past two decades.
Alice is taken back to Blighty by an old-school bitter, and Henry paints the town millennial pink.
Part cellar door, part bottle shop and soon-to-be urban winery, Dorset Street Cellar Door has a big future ahead of it.
Alice is tickled pink with a summery sour beer, while Henry says hola to a super-approachable Spanish white from Gizzy.
This Thursday is Beaujolais Nouveau Day, and you don’t have to buy into a quaint-French-custom-turned-grotesque-celebration-of-capitalism — or drink something that tastes like raspberry vinegar — to get involved.
Georgia has beautiful scenery, a fascinating wine scene and the world’s nicest taxi drivers. What’s not to like?
Alice partakes of a pineappley pale ale, while Henry pops the cork on some French fizz.
Dietary Requirements is The Spinoff’s new monthly podcast in which we eat, drink and talk about it too, with special thanks to Freedom Farms and Fine Wine Delivery Co.
Hayden Donnell surveys one of the more rare whiskies to ever go on sale in New Zealand, and asks whether it’s worth its gigantic purchasing price.
Henry dives into a big, bold Spanish red, while Alice samples an easy-drinking Kiwi hop fest.
Alice welcomes the zombie hopocalypse with open arms (and gin), while Henry sups upon a spicy syrah from a Hawke's Bay OG.
