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Part of a series of posts that cover my travel to Greece and the USA in April/May 2016. May 13 2016 – Birch Bay, Washington, USA It’s my last night with Bob and Jenise in Birch Bay. I have given them wine. … Continue reading
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Part of a series of posts that cover my travel to Greece and the USA in April/May 2016. May 12 2016 – Birch Bay, Washington, USA Jenise has to go into Bellingham. It’s approximately 25-mile drive each way but quick once … Continue reading
When my friend Jenise was in Hawaii she posted a pic of ‘chayote greens’ and a switch in my head clicked. Chayote is the Mexican name for choko and I have a vine growing in my back yard. Love the … Continue reading
Fish and chips at Orewa Beach on Tuesday 3rd January was arranged last year at the weekly coffee meeting. “I’ll bring a bottle of sav,” I said. ”And glasses,” I added, mentally noting to pack a box of XL5s because they were … Continue reading
Blobbing out on the couch last Friday, clicking through the channels, sussing out whether there was anything to watch after the ASB Classic Tennis finished early when Venus Williams had a walkover semi-final, I paused on the food channel where … Continue reading
Sometimes it takes a trip overseas to realise how good your country’s own number one wine is. Sometimes it is drinking your own country’s sauvignon blanc overseas, sharing a favourite label with wine friends on a balmy summer evening at … Continue reading
I have been declining most wine invitations the past year for various reasons – life’s too short to do everything – but like the Gladstone visit a couple of months ago, the Yealands lunch with winemaker Tamra Washington at Wine … Continue reading
Funny how some things go out of fashion. Semillon for example. Surprisingly quite a bit of it was grown here in New Zealand back in the 1980s. But Australia has always been the down under leader of the Semillon race. … Continue reading
Degustation. A hard word to say for us who were born with the English spoon. The word comes from the French dégustation, which is a derivative of the Latin degustare, which means ‘to taste’. A degustation menu incorporates a number … Continue reading
Chances are, kiwis, that unless you are a Twitter user, you didn’t know about International Sauvignon Blanc Day held on Friday, the 17th of May. But with sauvignon blanc being New Zealand’s number one wine grape, the chances are you … Continue reading