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Wine: Clubbing together
Joining a wine club is a great way to meet like-minded people and learn about the subject.

Wine: Get independent
Few wine lovers - even dedicated oenophiles - will have heard of the Spanish white, Albarino, but a single sip will have you hooked.

Wine: The name game
Montana wines as we know them will soon disappear from the shelves - in name only.

Barossa Valley: Swills in the hills
Good food and good wine overflow in the Barossa Valley, writes Joelle Thomson.

Happy days of cheap wine a chance to stock up your cellar
We are swimming in a wine glut at the moment and though that's not good news for the producers and growers, it's very good news for the canny consumer.

Foodies ahoy (+recipe)
A cruise aboard the Pacific Dawn is somewhat of a culinary adventure, finds Janetta Mackay.

Wine for the people
Hawkes Bay artist Martin Poppelwell has lent his talents to designing and producing The People's Wine.

Oratia: Take your nose on a ride
An interactive wine-tasting venture brings the experts to you, writes Jim Eagles.

It's a wide wine world out there
Joelle Thomson hears about the merits of buying wine online.

Go west, young man, to seek new beer
I had a wonderful experience recently when I attended a tasting of Hallertau's beers at a rather salubrious Mt Eden hostelry.

Wine: Riesling on the rise
Riesling is an often-overlooked variety of New Zealand wine, but a German expert was impressed with our latest examples.

Keeping it real
James Millton shuns PC pigeonholes in his quest to make the very best biodynamic wine he can, writes Joelle Thomson.

Wine: The detail that matters
There are three simple rules to ensure that every time you buy a really good bottle of NZ wine you can be assured of absolute quality.

Wine: Hammer horrors
Even in times of recession buying fine wine can be a solid, long-term investment.

Wine: When there's less, choose the best
Trimming down is never far from conversation at this time of year, but it's usually waistlines we're talking about - not wine.

Wine: Tasting les bons vins
I know many wine obsessives who, like myself, gave up buying top-end French wines, especially Bordeaux, when prices skyrocketed in the 90s.

Divers find 200-year-old champagne
Divers have found what is thought to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne in a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.

Wine: French revolution
France is taking drastic measures to save its struggling wine industry.