Author name: Semisi Telefoni

Mālō e lelei, fellow wine explorers. This week I want to take you somewhere unexpected. Not France.Not New Zealand.Not Australia. […]

Ofa asked me a great question Last week: Now that is a question worth pouring a glass over. Wine is

This week, while I was running a wine tasting in central Auckland, something caught my attention. A group of young

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Who’s been in that situation…the wine list lands in front of you, and somehow, you’re the one expected to choose

Over the past year, I’ve had the chance to host tastings all across Auckland. Different rooms. Different people. Different energy.

This week, a story came out of the US that made the whole wine world pause. A bottle of 1945

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Mālō e lelei, fellow wine explorers, Some stories stay with you. Some wines do too. And every now and then,