Cyber connoisseurs delight on the net

* www.cooperscreek.co.nz - take a virtual wine tour at the home of Coopers Creek wine.

* www.tizwine.com - massive site covering all aspects of New Zealand wine. Oenophiles will delight at being able to have wine information emailed to them every day.

* canterbury.fare.co.nz - food and wine from around the Canterbury region.

* www.realbeer.co.nz - home site for the beer lovers of New Zealand. They can be just as enthusiastic as wine nuts!

* www.epicurean.co.nz - home of the Epicurean Workshop, New Zealand's best known cooking school. Beautiful site.

* www.choctruffles.co.nz - posh chocolate shop, appears to be aimed at the overseas visitor ie: "Here in Invercargill there's a charm, a thrill, a reverie to everyday life. It's a place where dreams take root and flourish. Chocolate dreams."

* www.organicmarket.co.nz - a good site for anyone interested in organics. Provides links to organic growers, dealers and suppliers across the country.

* www.WildAppetite.co.nz - pate, vinegars, sauces, chutneys, preserves, mustards, etc, very gourmet, very posh.

* www.wildcountry.co.nz - product ranges - oils, spices, rubs, marinades and ideas about how to use them.

* www.replete.co.nz - Taupo based cafaacé and cooking school

* www.haggisman.co.nz - This is where you find Dennis, an Auckland arborist and haggis enthusiast, who will make you a haggis and even pipe it in to your dinner table.

* www.bobcampbell.co.nz - home, naturally, of Bob Campbell, master of wine.

* www.sabato.co.nz - online home of the renowned Auckland deli. Buy online, look at recipes, enrol in classes.

* www.delmaine.co.nz - Delmaine specialises in Mediterranean and Italian food. Check out the gift baskets.

* www.gourmetdirect.com - Buy all those flash foods here - everything you can think of, including veal, quails and pheasants.

* www.macnut.co.nz - Online home of macnuts, a macadamia orchard near Helensville.

* www.piperpat.co.nz/nz/foods/veges.html -A huge list of links to all manner of food and wine producers and suppliers. Very comprehensive.

* www.finewineonline.co.nz - a huge site for online wine lovers.

* www.wineonline.co.nz - a very small wine site, not as comprehensive as many of the others.

* www.winedirect.co.nz - an e-tailing wine site. Not as much hard news and information, a serious shop front.

* www.winesofnz.com - very comprehensive wine site, all the wine award winners and again, links to all of New Zealand's wineries.

* www.foodinaminute.co.nz - good for quick recipes that use items that you're likely to have in the pantry and good ideas for family meals. Features a weekly menu planner, ideas for kids. Very easy to use website.

* www.cuisine.co.nz - full archive of wonderful recipes from their magazines, beautifully presented. Features Ray McVinnie as their main food consultant. Is one of the most comprehensive of New Zealand's food and wine sites, with a recipe search that allows you to select ingredients and meal types.

* www.voodootuesday.co.nz - huge list of interesting and modern recipes. Also allows you to create a recipe using one of their products and have it printed on their website and they'll send you a free product.

* www.goodfoodgame.co.nz - good portal to help you find other New Zealand food and wine sites. Visitors can vote for or against GE food and can then either win a non-GE or GE item of food as a prize.