Taking a whole person approach, providing and promote high quality specialist palliative care, grief support, education and care planning services. Working alongside all health partners, making a difference in the communities
Enormously human and helpful services and the best source of information for those encountering cancer, whether patients, family and support people
Independent consumer information for New Zealanders, including wine and beer
Independent Wine Reviewers
These are my fellow on-line wine writers and reviewers who are ‘Friends and Favourites’. All have significant wine tasting if not judging experience and I admire their work and enthusiasm. They continue to inspire me and encourage me in my endeavours
Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, is my guru. He’s N.Z.’s best wine educator and he reviews with unrivalled conciseness a myriad of wines. Bob is wonderful to judge and drink wines with
Geoff Kelly has the most precise and detailed tasting notes I know of. He’s been a brilliant mentor and thinks more deeply about wines than anyone else I know. An expert on aged wines
Sam and I are the Asian wine writers who will take over the world (well, N.Z. anyway). A sensitive man with a great palate, who writes with real empathy. A kindred spirit
* Joelle Thomson – www.joellethomson.com
Joelle’s a Wellington girl gone far, now a widely circulated and well-respected wine writer and author with a very experienced palate, in-tune with the wider consumer market
* Elissa Jordan – www.winefulness.co.nz
Elissa represents the new wave of wine writer and blogger. Originally calling herself a neophyte, she thinks, drinks and writes about wine as seriously as anyone I know
* Warren Barton – www.bartononwine.weebly.com
Warren is one of this country’s most honest and down-to-earth wine writers with a long track record in journalism. He calls it the way he sees it, and he’s invariably right, because it’s common sense
Informed and opinioned blog of Wairarapa-based journalist with a healthy interest in wine
Private wine tours and travel arrangements, working with bespoke travel operators, to vineyards, kitchens and this country’s treasures, by Bill Hird, a well-connected wine and food lover, and all-round nice guy
The official site of New Zealand Winegrowers and the New Zealand wine industry. The definitive statistics on the state of the grape and wine nation
Wellington-based logistics, warehousing and distribution services. Immaculately clean warehousing!
Proper Crisps – www.propercrisps.co.nz
My favourite potato crisps, made in Nelson, pure, unadulterated with real potato flavour and subtle seasoning. They go with wines too!
Self-storage facility at Ngauranga, Wellington. Different storage plans available for wine cellaring
Prue Younger is Gisborne’s keenest fan. Her tours of Gisborne have themes of Wine, Cuisine, Place and Journey
Victoria Taylor and Kirstin O’Brien are designers of exquisite jewellery pieces from gold, silver, precious gemstones and pearls. Bespoke, individual designs are a specialty
Event management company with experience and expertise with wine – Pinot Noir 2001, 2004 conferences, LOTR premieres and much more
This visitors’ accommodation and holiday guide to the historic West Auckland region has details for the many and varied winemakers, traditional and new, all worth visiting
The most useful site for wine industry personnel and an excellent all-round resource
Raymond’s slightly irreverent blog on mainly older wines, some from a long-left cellar, tasted and consumed with anonymous friends
Results and information for all of the major New Zealand wine judging competitions
