While it's always a good idea to opt for a local offering, if you feel like treating yourself to a good bottle of red there's nothing stopping you from looking at old favourites and lesser-known lovelies from over the seas.

Olivia Newton-John is releasing her own brand of wine to boost a cancer campaign.

The wines from the skin-stretchingly hot and dusty climes of South Australia are vastly different to our own ...

The reason these “single-vineyard” wines are so glorious is because some serious thought has gone into matching the precise plot with perfect soils to grow these specific styles.

How these wines acquire a cocoa character I don’t know — but they’re magic.

Q&A with Jean-Christophe Poizat, founder of French fine wine merchant Maison Vauron, about doing business in NZ.

A former All Blacks coach, an ex-Olympic rower and rich-lister, and a high-profile chairman went in to bat for former wine boss Peter Scutts who was sentenced to eight months' home detention yesterday.

Try out these wines, recommended by writer Yvonne Lorkin, for winter.

July already? Good grief! Instead of contemplating where the year has gone, think about what to drink this weekend.

What if wine could talk back? What if the bottle you see on the shelf already knew what was going to happen before you put it in your trolley? What would yours say?

Marlborough: capital city, Blenny-vegas. We love it for squint-inducing sauvignon blanc, Renwick pies, mussel farms, plane museums, pinot noir, riesling and everything in between…

Air New Zealand will broaden the range of wine in premium cabins as it pushes back on claims it is being stingy in economy.

David Leggat visited the wine regions of South Australia for a spot of glug-glugging.

Staring at acres of bottles on supermarket shelves, it’s easy to forget that there are actual human beings behind our favourite fast-moving consumer goods.

Air NZ has appointed two leading international wine judges and commentators to help select the one million bottles of wine its passengers drink annually.

These wines will get you close to replicate a visceral joy-rush.

Wine drinkers in the UK may face paying more for a glass of New Zealand sauvignon blanc.

Red, russet, carmine-coloured and crimson, earthy tones and splashes of spice — these arbiters of autumnal awesomeness will do more than fill your alliteration quota for the week ...

Cabernet franc is the bridesmaid of the Bordeaux family. Everyone expects it to be there but sadly it never gets singled out for much attention.

Today we remember our boys who faced an uphill battle of the worst kind 100 years ago. On our home shores back in 1915, young Josip Babich had just harvested his first crop of grapes …

Horticultural production has topped $7 billion for the first time, with good growth in nearly all the main industries, including wine, apples, potatoes, and onions.

I am happy. I am one of the happiest people you will ever meet, writes Mike Hosking. Being upbeat and happy and positive has served me well, and the more it's served me well, the more upbeat I have become.

Looking for love in all the wrong places? Sometimes all it takes is a sip of something sensational to put you back on track.

Melanie Brown's campaign to raise £35,000 to set up a specialist wine store in Brixton, London, has exceeded its target.

That cool pinot gris you enjoy after a tough day at the office is really just a mutant spin-out of pinot noir - or so scientists have found.

A Kiwi woman has launched a Kickstarter campaign in the hopes of raising £35,000 to set up a specialist wine store in Brixton, London.

So yes, we’ve been pushed into autumn, and while your tan may be fading, don’t let your taste buds suffer the same fate

Pinot gris has proved an unstoppable force in this country. Our wineries now crush a whopping 24,000 tonnes; 1500 times the volume of 2005. But not all pinot gris is the same — some super-dry, right through to luxuriously rich, sweeter styles.