Spring sipping – wine reviews
PHIL PARKER celebrates the hint of warmer temperatures and the slow segue into summer with another selection of tasty wines.
Fine family wines from Aotearoa
This month PHIL PARKER features wine from two iconic NZ producers, Sir George Fistonich and Pegasus Bay's Donaldson family.
Korero Te Reo
PHIL PARKER is all for embracing diversity, especially when it comes to wine varieties from all over the world.
Golden harvest of Autumn wines
PHIL PARKER sits back and sips and cogitates while our wine producers toil to get the best of the annual grape harvest.
Wine time: 12 autumnal beauts
PHIL PARKER has been doing a lot of drinking with one purpose in mind: to find 12 bottles of recommendable wine just for you.
Last of the fab summer wine
Witchdoctor's wine guru PHIL PARKER has a selection this month that will take you through the last flush of summer drinking.
Terrific Tuscany – Kiwi drinks up large
Witchdoctor's wine guru PHIL PARKER looks back on a memorable trip to the heartland of Tuscan wine country.
Summer wine
PHIL PARKER is back with a fab selection of wines to share with your nearest and dearest over the festive season.
Vinopalooza dream team selection
Witchdoctor's wine expert PHIL PARKER pours some more vino goodness from New Zealand and elsewhere down our throats.
Dream team selection
PHIL PARKER ferrets out some truly impressive, gorgeous wines that'll put a spring or two in your step. Just don't fall down the stairs.
Our wine guru has spring drinking and storm water damage on his mind
PHIL PARKER is getting a spring in his step and a tingle in his tongue in anticipation of the drinking of more top vino.
Winter wine to put a bit of spring in your step
Witchdoctor wine guru PHIL PARKER finds some wines to cheer us up as we try to escape the clutches of late winter blues.
These superb wines will get you through the cold months
Here we go, folks. Another jolly bumper edition, featuring some fab wines from NZ Italy and USA, quaffed and written about by PHIL PARKER.
Sipping in slippers
PHIL PARKER acknowledges the change in seasons with some indoorsy sipping and supping options to keep you warm.
These Kiwi wines are full of flavour, nuance and character
PHIL PARKER with another bumper edition of his well-regarded wine column that's as full-bodied and nuanced as his selections.
Celebrating the new year with some fine wine
PHIL PARKER is relieved that we've got a new year to contemplate over some wonderful tipples from, well... years gone by!
Vinopalooza
The seasonal Tsunami of wine trade samples has arrived on PHIL PARKER's door. Season's greetings!
Drinking in fresh air
PHIL PARKER has retired his trusty reusable merino wool filter mask and is now ready to drink up just for you!
The sad lot of the modern wine writer
Feast or famine – flood or drought. Such are the life and times of a keen as Kiwi wine critic, writes PHIL PARKER.
Wines for these lengthening days
PHIL PARKER selects a tasty half-dozen wines to sample that are specially matched to the burst of spring energy.
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