Some of our most experienced wine entrepreneurs are among New Zealand's richest people.

When wanting to impress visiting overseas wine buffs, I have trusty favourites that I pluck from the cellar and open with a good deal of confidence.

Wine writer John Hawkesby takes a look back over a year of sipping to come up with his 12 best bottles.

Recent wild growing conditions are posing challenges for winemakers across the globe.

The manufacturer of a plane forced to crash land without its nose wheel in Blenheim has defended its safety record.

A sentence of home detention for a bar owner who killed a patron is a "mockery" to the family, the victim's father says.

The New Zealand pinot noir movement is gathering pace and the great and good of the wine world jetted in from Singapore, Stockholm and San Francisco last week to experience Central Otago's take on the grape.

New Zealand wines of genuine distinction and world class status are not legion, but they do exist. Some tick some of the boxes some of the time. A few seem to get it dead right most of the time.

Getting experimental in our vineyards is a risky business, but one that has paid off in the past for our winemakers.

Dust your bunny ears down, the Year of the Rabbit is upon us.

One year on from his disappearance, police have renewed an appeal for information about a 19-year-old Nelson student.

You'll rarely hear "subtle" and "Marlborough sauvignon blanc" in the same sentence.

Brown muscat and men called Keith share something in common - they don't sound very sexy. Nevertheless, I got hot under the collar about some new brown muscat plantings a few weeks ago.