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Eat, drink, be merry - how to make the most of this year's F.A.W.C! Food and Wine Classic
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Eat, drink, be merry - how to make the most of this year's F.A.W.C! Food and Wine Classic

We could all do with some blue skies ahead after this annus horribilis and the F.A.W.C! Food and Wine Classic Summer Series is just the ticket. Held from November 6-15 in sunny Hawke’s Bay, this event is a glorious celebration of the good things in life. Here are our top picks fr...

04 Sep 2020
Living the luxe life at The Farm, Cape Kidnappers
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Living the luxe life at The Farm, Cape Kidnappers

When you're going to a mega-expensive luxury resort, you don't expect the journey there to feature highly. But this one does. It's 6km of highly engineered road weaving away from the Hawke’s Bay coast up through a gully, swapping places with a stony creek bed, buildin...

Matt Martel 28 Aug 2020
Rock and awe - on course for adventure in Central Otago
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Rock and awe - on course for adventure in Central Otago

Big sky, sheer rock bluffs, a powerful river rolling through a remote canyon – Central Otago is the part of New Zealand where your Spotify music feed is locked on ‘lonesome, Western’. That raw southern landscape, all schist and scrub, gave us a 19th-century gold rush and now sust...

Matt Philp 14 Aug 2020
Wild about the west - discover Auckland's best wineries
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Wild about the west - discover Auckland's best wineries

It's in the wilds of West Auckland - famed for its raw, rugged coastlines and no-nonsense types that you'll find some of New Zealand's best vineyards - and a rich seam of vinicultural history. So, where to start?The Hunting Lodge in Waimauku is home of New Zealand’s f...

Brent Melville 31 Jul 2020