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.

Boxing Day Fashions in the Field winner Meg Wilson is having another shot for the top title at this weekend's Derby Day.

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

Most people are in for a great summer weekend with high air pressure over the North Island and an advancing front in the South Island.

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

While summer continues to roll on, the fashionable tipple should still be rosé. No one is quite sure what is behind the rise and rise of this previously lowly ranked style, but it's popping up all over the place.

We are not being surrounded by aliens from outer space after all, but by PVC monsters.

Having led a lonely childhood, Lesley Pearse knows what it is to seek a better life. Now she is helping women to help others. She tells Stephen Jewell how.

Is selling to foreigners the only way out?

It's that time of year again when we're compelled to buy a sentimental card for our loved ones and go out for a set-menu meal - or wallow in our singledom.

The new eight-week competition begins on July 14, when Otago host North Harbour. It involves 14 teams, with games scheduled from Tuesday through to Sunday each week.

United States news organisation CNN International has released its top 10 places to propose to a loved one on Valentine's Day.

Holding his only surviving daughter after a horror car crash, Donald Coulter says: "I thank my lucky stars I still have one. I still wish I had two."

Police have named a woman and her daughter killed in a crash today. A two-year-old girl also in the car was rescued.