Spanish winemaker Telmo Rodriguez has seduced a Kiwi distributor with his ravishing reds.

If wine had a personality, pinot noir's would be strangely alluring while requiring occasional therapy.

My nana loved her occasional sherry. It sat on a highly polished mahogany side table in a splendid crystal decanter, with an elaborate stopper on top.

Fusing wine and artistic licence is for the people, writes Joelle Thomson.

A creeping blush after a tipple compels Gill South to get to the bottom of an embarrassing problem.

New Zealand's wine-drinking habits are not far off international trends.

The Lucky Country. Australia. Big, bold and brash, just like her wines. Well, some of them anyway.

A scale for pinot gris would help both consumers and winemakers.

New technology gives consumer instant information about their wine of choice.

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

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

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

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

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

Few spirits have the romance, the history and the sheer brilliance of whisky.

An interactive wine-tasting venture brings the experts to you, writes Jim Eagles.

Joelle Thomson hears about the merits of buying wine online.

I had a wonderful experience recently when I attended a tasting of Hallertau's beers at a rather salubrious Mt Eden hostelry.

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