| Personality of the Month
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Giles Hine - TiZwine.com |
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Giles is a Pom who emigrated to New Zealand with his Kiwi wife, Sue, and two children, Megan and Tom, in 2006. He previously owned and ran a luxury country house hotel in Gloucestershire, England called Corse Lawn House Hotel. During his 15 year tenure the hotel won numerous awards culminating in it being voted "Country Hotel of the Year 2005" in the very prestigious Good Hotel Guide. One of the features of the hotel was an extensive winelist, the running of which Giles considered to be a "perk of the job"! This love of wine combined with a desire not to work every weekend and most evenings led Giles into the Kiwi wine industry and subsequently to the front office of TiZwine. |
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| Welcome to TiZwine.com |
TiZwine.com is the premier information site for New Zealand wine. Here you will find details on every winery in the country. Moreover, there are tasting notes on literally hundreds of wines many of which have been assessed by the team at TiZwine. Every other month we give our “Top Tip”, “Best Buy” and "Consumers Choice" awards to those wines we particularly enjoyed. We also provide extensive profiles on all the NZ wine-growing regions, where to eat, stay, play and taste in these regions as well as how to get there – in fact, everything you need to plan a short break or holiday.
At the same time as encouraging consumers to become more closely involved in wine, we help the wineries and wine-related industries in many varied ways such as point of sale material, classifieds for the sale of new and used equipment and supplies, website development, an information depository and many other services.
So please browse our site. It is growing and hopefully improving all the time. Why not join our rapidly growing community by registering for one or more of our newsletters – this is a FREE service - JOIN HERE. If you are any questions or observations we would love to hear from you. Happy drinking. |
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| Awards & Reviews -
Wine of the Month |
| The Hettinga Estate Malbec/Merlot 2006 won a "Best Buy" and a "Consumers Choice" Award this month. See the other awards from the
latest TiZwine
tasting here. |
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Hettinga Estate Malbec/Merlot 2006 |

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A straightforward wine that is very enjoyable and will please many as is highlighted by its Consumers Choice Award. The wine has strong, smokey and spicy aromas that give way to ripe berry fruit flavours and soft tannins.
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Hawkes Bay |
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Hettinga Estates |
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| Events |
The European Wine Experience  Take a tour of the many wine regions of Europe, tasting the wines and learning about them from The Wine Bunch, New Zealand’s leading wine importers.
Sampling the wines of France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria and Portugal, you’ll experience a huge range of styles with over 150 wines available for tasting from some of Europe’s top regions and producers. read more |
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| Industry News |
The Hospitality Trade has chosen John Forrest as NZ’s finest vintner  Marlborough wine maker Dr John Forrest is the finest vintner in the land according to the hospitality trade.
Dr Forrest on Tuesday 5th September took out the Buyers’ Choice Award at the country’s biggest showcase of New Zealand wines ‘in one place’. He heads Forrest Estate Wines in Marlborough.
More than 2,000 hospitality trade visitors to Wine New Zealand in Auckland voted for Dr Forrest, acknowledging him as their choice for winemaker of the year...
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| New Products |
Need bottle shots for your latest vintages?  TiZwine.com now offers a bottleshot service - we can provide you with all the digital images you will ever need. (suitable for trade, media, websites). We can even remove the vintage for you. Please contact Sue Hine on sue@tizwine.com or 09 4135363 for more information and pricing...read more |
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| Education |
Building Wine Brands  Building Wine Brands -
17/06/08- 18/06/08 -
This symposium will focus on Building Wine Brands as a company, regionally, nationally and on the global stage. Taking a broad cross-disciplinary approach, the symposium will look to bridge the theory - practice gap by bringing together the top international researchers, successful brand creators, and wine industry leaders. read more |
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LIPS (Liquor Information Pricing Search) is a FREE search engine which allows you to find the best advertised prices and special offers on beer, wine, spirits and RTD products in New Zealand.
read more  We have a small list of New Zealand Vineyards and Wineries being offered for sale and can provide details to serious buyers.read more  New Zealand's own specialist wine jobs, jobseekers and networking service especially for those who work in wine.read more |
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