Create this stunning Tropical Trifle Cake with Kate Marinkovich from Tomboy Cakery.

Recipe kindly shared by Arobake owner Max Fuhrer. If you don't have time to make your own, Arobake's delicious stollen is available from Moore Wilson's Fresh along with their festive fruit mince pies!

Recreate this beautiful spring dish from Jacob Brown and Sarah Bullock from The Larder in Miramar.

This elegant cranberry and bubbly cocktail is perfect for holiday parties!

Ingredients sold individually in store or the Moore Wilson's Festive Poinsettia Cocktail Pack is available for delivery nationwide - a great gift for a cocktail lover!

Founded in 2007, owners Ned and Mina became the Head Potatoes in 2010.  They have worked with a dedicated team of potato professionals, to cultivate Proper Crisps from seed to success.

The Proper Crisps story started when English couple Stuart and Kathryn Franklin decided New Zealand was being short-changed in the crisp market. They set up a fledgling business in a small food factory at Upper Moutere and Kiwis quickly fell in love with this hand crafted product, so much so they soon outgrew the premises.

However, for a couple who had poured all of their resources into starting a small business the success was a double edged sword. The business simply got too big too quickly for them so in 2011 they sold Proper Crisps to Mina Wilke-Smith and Ned Smith, who became the Head Potatoes.

Born in South Africa to an English father and a French mother, Mina’s love of food is driven by the European influences. From an early age she developed a love for different foods and travel.

Ned is a trained chef who started in the food business as a kid, where he washed the floors in a neighbour’s restaurant. Moving to California saw him switching to a bakery which he developed into a commercial cheesecake business.

After many successful years in the bakery industry, Ned and Mina decided to sell their business and travel the world for two years before buying a home in Nelson in 2010.

Ned said they were looking for investment opportunities rather than buying a business to run.

They discovered Proper Crisps, later found the business was on the market and were eventually tempted into looking at it "because I am a foodie, not because we wanted to buy it and we found a nice little setup in Upper Moutere".

Having had a very successful food business in the United States that was based on similar philosophies Mina and Ned quickly saw the potential in this crisp producer.

Stuart and Kathryn set out to make the best crisps on the planet and Ned and Mina thought they had the perfect product.

At Proper Crisps they only use natural ingredients, their flavourings aren't a list of "e" numbers and artificial additives, just real Marlborough garlic with smoked, sweet paprika or maybe Marlborough sea salt with pure cider vinegar, and it goes without saying they use natural fresh, whole potatoes too.

They have developed the business into the fastest growing snack food business in New Zealand, but most importantly it is a family established and owned business.

"Building a company is like making a family of its own, we want to create an environment where we all work hard, have fun and we all make money, no one is clock watching, if it means staying an extra 15 minutes to complete a job they will, and be happy to do it because they feel they are part of the business," Mina says.

As one of New Zealand’s iconic wine companies Palliser Estate has a prestigious heritage and exciting future. It is an unlisted public company, proudly owned by a small number of loyal and passionate New Zealanders, who believe in investing in super premium producers.

“We are old school and we are proud of it, acting with honour, choosing to be strong leaders and practicing exceptional craftsmanship is par for the course at Palliser. We are avid pursuers of excellence. That’s never going to change. It’s who we are.”

The most important part of any vineyard (besides the people) is the land.

The Martinborough Terrace, where they grow their grapes, is a small but very special area of land located at the southern end of the North Island. Framed by the Ruamahanga and Huangarua Rivers which helped carve out the Terrace centuries ago. The land is a stony silt loam overlaying varying depths of ancient free draining river gravels. The climate is dry with frosts and strong winds challenging them at every turn but when the harvest comes all the hard work is more than worth it.

Palliser Estate own seven vineyards on the Terrace. Although they are within walking distance of each other they are all producing quite distinctive wine styles reflecting the differences in soils and micro climates. It’s a perfect combination that, for them, creates perfect wines.

Palliser isn’t just about their past, they are also planning ahead for their future history.
After completing the process of converting the Winery and Wharekauhau vineyards to organic management, other vineyards will follow in due course (OmSanti vineyard has begun conversion).They feel this will provide the truest representation of sense of place as well as improving the soil for future generations.

Create Amy Gillies' Coconut Semifreddo at home.
Recipe serves 4

Welcome spring with new season Tendertips asparagus and fresh scallops in a delicious white wine sauce.

Makes 4

Try this fresh spiced chickpea salad by John and Penny Pennington from Chocolate Fish Cafe.

In 1984 James and Annie Millton established The Millton Vineyard on the banks of the Te Arai River near Manutuke, Gisborne, where the early settlers first planted grapevines in 1871.

Millton was the first producer in New Zealand to gain Bio-Gro certification for organic wine production in 1989. Having practiced traditional methods of cultivation and production centred on biodynamic principles since inception, Millton were the first winegrowers in the Southern Hemisphere to gain the biodynamic certification Demeter in 2009. This involves growing the grapes without the use of herbicide, insecticide, systemic fungicides or soluble fertilisers, as well as adherence to the rhythms of nature; the earth, sun, moon and beyond!