Auckland is full of fun foodie adventures to inspire and entertain. Nicky Pellegrino makes some delicious discoveries.

Southern Wines is a winemaking company with a difference. It's New Zealand's sole producer of resveratrol-enhanced wine (REW).

Every year Robert Hodgson selects the finest wines from his small California winery and puts them into competitions around the state.

Affluent young Chinese women may be the future of New Zealand's wine industry.

Don Kavanagh suggests you bide your time if you want your wine to have worth.

Australasia's most expensive, revered red wine, Penfolds Grange, has released its latest vintage.

Winemakers across the country are hailing 2013's vintage as one of the best they've ever seen.

Wellington's food festival is a treat for the palate. Don Kavanagh reports.

The food on the Hauraki cycle trail was worth dismounting for, says Nadia Lim.

Kiwi craft brews stand out at an Australian beer festival, writes Don Kavanagh.

Cheers columnist Don Kavanagh urges readers to learn about brettanomyces.

This is the first year that super premium Church Road wines Tom Chardonnay and Tom Cabernet Merlot have been simultaneously released.

Don Kavanagh mixes with the best in a contest to find the nation's best bartender.

While lamenting the end of the long, lovely summer, I’m embracing the change of season with the respect it deserves.

Correctly matching wines to food is easy to get wrong.

One afternoon I decided that a nice cold chardonnay with dinner would be in order. So I put a bottle in the freezer intending to give it a good chill, writes Shelley Bridgeman.

Low-alcohol beers can tickle the taste buds, as Don Kavanagh discovers.

It doesn’t seem all that long ago that friends and Waiheke neighbours Chris Canning and Bryan Mogridge began their winegrowers’ dream to make the definitive wine.

Tim Lightbourne, co-founder with winemaker, Rob Cameron, of award winning Invivo Wines, talks about launching a possibly risky low calorie wine range.

For almost two decades, Hans Herzog has been growing grapes, making wine and, in the process, carving out an enviable reputation for low-yielding, small-volume, high-quality handcrafted wines from Marlborough.

Winery inspires display at famous garden show.

Watch out, world, chenin blanc is poised to take its place in the spotlight.

Hunker down for winter with a good port, suggests Don Kavanagh.

It's remarkable how many small companies import wines of interest from Europe.

Gruner veltliner may not be a white wine you ask for or buy regularly, but it's here whether you're ready or not.

Jo Burzynska joins Central Otago artisan vintners on their yearly harvest.

A winery has lost 6000 litres of merlot after vandals opened a tank valve and left it to drain.

Dieters can now have their wine and drink it, guilt-free and without the hangover. But as you raise a glass, be aware that diet wines may not be without their own side-effects.

For some reason, a number of Australian wines that were fashionable and readily available a couple of decades ago in New Zealand vanished from our shelves. Now they’re making a comeback.