You know you're getting old when you start asking, "Where has the year gone?"

Philip Rich will raise his glass up to 400 times this week as he turns his palate to the Air New Zealand Wine Awards.

Pernod Ricard New Zealand, the local arm of the French liquor company, has sold a dozen wine brands and some wineries to a Lion Nathan New Zealand-led joint venture for $88 million.

This year, Marlborough's Cloudy Bay Winery celebrates its 25th anniversary. Viva speaks to winemaker Nick Lane about the rise and rise of New Zealand's wine industry.

China is now our wine industry's fastest-growing export market.

Expand your palate, there's more to white wine than sauvignon blanc.

Attention to detail is the all-important ingredient in the business of making champagne, says Francois Hautekeur.

Two Waikato boys team up to share their gourmet talents.

Our new generation of vintners aren't afraid to push the boundaries and think outside the square with their winemaking.

How we present ourselves says a lot about us to other people, and the same applies to how wines are presented to us, if the nakedly ambitious marketing of champagne, organic wines and pinot noirs I've seen recently is anything to go by.

Increasing taxes is not the right way to go about changing our attitude to alcohol

The air is cool, the shiraz is dark and I am falling in love with the muscle and power of Australia's most famous and commercially successful wine all over again.