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.

Sauvignon blanc is in danger of going the way of Kath and Kim's favourite tipple, chardonnay.

After going on record last week about Italian wine being astonishingly food-friendly, I thought I should put up or shut up.

It is without doubt one of the great global brands, producing some of the world's finest wines.

Winemakers often have the best results when they combine old practices with new techniques.

Cue the bubbly this month because it marks 16 years since I wrote my first wine column; even if it's not a round number, it's a good excuse to drink bubbles.

Girl power is alive and well and flourishing in the local wine industry.

Rays that cause skin cancer also make New Zealand sauvignon blanc unique, according to new research.

A wealthy developer has lost his claim to a $1 million wine stash from his top Otago winery.

Kati Kasza's father instilled in her a love of plants and the importance of seeking quality.

"Kiwi savvy" has commanded the highest per litre price of any wine sold in the UK for more than a decade.

Sometimes referred to as the godfather of pinot noir in New Zealand, he strides the landscape like Goliath.

In French, they call it le signe oenologique, but that's the thing about French: words like oenology and gastronomy don't sound half as pretentious as they do in English.

Too much of a good thing threatens to skittle some in the wine industry.

Liam Dann writes that fast growth and a grape glut are serious threats to New Zealand's global status.

Unofficial estimates say that wine sales in Spain, the third largest producer in the world, have dropped by about 10 per cent.

A company that paid vineyard workers as little as $2 an hour has lost a legal battle over unpaid wages.

This year's New Zealand wine vintage is expected to shrink slightly - for the first time. And industry leaders say it's a good thing.

Sheep numbers have continued to fall, dairy cow numbers are rising and grain crops increased markedly, latest agricultural production figures show.

A leading British wine critic has warned New Zealand pinot noir makers not to flood the British market with cut-price wine, which he says has happened with our sauvignon blancs.

Five winegrowers specialising in five separate grape varieties have joined forces to market their brands to the world's fussiest wine drinkers.