October is upon us in all its frisky fabulousness, so let's carpe the diem and drink excellently.

The inaugural Black Power Film Festival offers wine, appetisers and discussion - perhaps not the first things most people would associate with a gang.

Someone once bade me farewell by saying "kisses on all ya pink parts", which I felt overstepped the mannerly mark. These pink drinks however, are more than decent...

Marlborough-based Giesen Wines has been awarded the 2016 Champion Pinot Noir Trophy.

Forty is the new 20? Hardly. Spend an extra $20 and your taste buds will be born again...

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Push out the boat and make this a week of wines from foreign climes ...

Do the Real Housewives of Auckland make you want to perform seppuku on yourself? Don't fret, just sip and forget...

Pinot noir nirvana will no doubt be achieved by those attending Pinot Palooza today at Shed 10 on Auckland's Queens' Wharf. The rest of us can achieve enlightenment via these three...

From Otago and California, there's something for all courses.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Kiwi company Invivo is toasting its success as it prepares to launch the latest collaboration with talkshow host Graham Norton.

Top wine judge Jim Harre says this vintage have been particularly good, especially as the harvest has been large, which normally means a drop in quality.

Air New Zealand has narrowed down top wines it will serve in its business premier cabins.

Vinomofo's loyal Australian audience will soon be ordering Kiwi wines by the caseload as it expands to start sellling to local wine lovers.

After a pop-up sale last month, online wine seller Vinomofo is coming to New Zealand.

With a mere 2pc of the market, the field is wide open for New Zealand tipples.

COMMENT: The New Zealand wine industry is big business with an estimated annual turnover of $2 billion, $1.42 billion of which comes from export earnings.

Hoon on the goon no more. Australia is set to end games of Goon of Fortune by introducing a tax on cheap wines.

Singer Maynard James Keenan will speak about wine at Pinot Noir NZ 2017.

New Zealand wine exports have reached a new record high for the 2015 year.

A group of wine writers have labelled the practice of paid-for wine reviews unethical.

The actor and winemaker started off 20-odd years ago with a 2ha plot and never thought it would be anything more than a hobby.

If you are struggling with a hangover tomorrow morning, it might not be entirely your own fault. Here's why.

Ata Rangi vineyard in Martinborough has been rated number five on the top 100 wines by American wine critic James Suckling with its 2013 pinot noir.

Area labelling is sure to be extended in the upcoming free trade talks with the European Union, writes Audrey Young.

One mouthful is all it took and the Marlborough sauvignon blanc legend was born. By Joelle Thomson.

For 100 years, the Babich family have stayed true to the ideals of their patriarch.

A new study of NZ's six major wine-growing regions has uncovered an hidden factor in what sets the flavours and aromas of vintages in different regions.