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A wine writer and former editor of Wine NZ, Jo is the author of Wine Class: All You Need to Know About Wine in New Zealand. She’s also a sound artist who has exhibited and performed around the world, often combining the sonic with the sensory.

In her, senior editor Madeleine Chapman delves into the little-known life story of Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson. After one interview was cancelled during the March Covid lockdown, they had a “Zoom beer” instead, in which Robertson enjoyed a Helensville porter he won from Newstalk ZB host Heather Du Plessis-Allan in a bet.

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