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After a year interrupted by Covid-19, The Block NZ returns for a ninth season with four new teams.
Four teams are set to duke it out on season nine of
The Block NZ, and one pairing already seems to have an edge. Team Blue’s Tim Cotton and Arthur Gillies have the least renovation experience of all the teams, but challenge host Shelley Ferguson has her eye on other attributes. “They’ve just got beautiful souls, they are such cool boys – surfers, super chill, but absolute eye candy. I can tell they are going to be favourites with New Zealand,” raves Ferguson, who returns to the show for her sixth year.
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According to the 2021 New Zealand Organic Market Report, the organic wine sector has seen approximately 40 per cent export growth and 33 per cent domestic growth since 2017.
People have been drinking wine for many thousands of years. Wine, in its various forms, has been documented in studies of archaeology, history and literature throughout the world. Societal, cultural and medical interest in wine dates back as far as the social history of humanity. Modern research has pointed to some now well-recognised health benefits of the moderate consumption of wine, mainly with food, in a sensible manner. As research and interest in wine s health-giving properties has increased in recent years, so has awareness of organic, natural wine which is free of the types of chemicals we now know can harm human health, as well as damage the environment. Consumers are increasingly seeking out sustainable, natural products which they can incorporate into their lives. Much has been ma
5%, 330ml, 1.7g sugar, 97 calories, $25 for 10
Pure Piraña is a Heineken brand that launched its two flavours into New Zealand last September. We all thought this one smelled like Sprite, which is a good thing. As for the taste, Leonie Hayden reckoned “watered down Sprite”, while Toby Manhire got shandy vibes. Michael felt it would be a good beer pong beverage, while Leonie said “I would happily drink many litres of that until I regretted it”.
Berg Blackberry, Dirty Water Lemon Lime and Pure Piraña Lime
7) Greenhill Seltzers Pamplemousse (
6%, 330ml, 6.4g sugar, 565kj (127 calories), $27 for 10
Greenhill is a New Zealand company based in Motueka, with three vodka-based seltzers on the market. The grapefruit version (pamplemousse is French for grapefruit innit) has an adorable moose on the can (geddit?), but we were not swayed by that because remember, #blindtasting. Alice Neville equated the aroma to posh fizzy drink San Pellegrino Pompelmo (that’s Italian for grapef