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Chill out, and enjoy your wine
Wine drinkers already know sauvignon blanc tastes best if chilled, and scientists have now proven keeping it on ice helps retain its flavours.

Wine: A match made in heaven
Pairing food and wine well adds spark to a dining experience.

Export wine focus turns to top table
A new Government-backed push into the US aims to build a super premium wine category for the billion-dollar export industry.

Good taste: Falling in love with an Aussie
The air is cool, the shiraz is dark and I am falling in love with the muscle and power of Australia's most famous and commercially successful wine all over again.

Good taste: How bad can they be?
"How bad could they be?" Chris Carrad asked himself when he was planning to import some of the weirdest wines on the planet to New Zealand.

Wine: Red alert
Joelle Thomson nobly sips, swirls and spits 47 wines to find her top 10 low-cost reds.

Wine: A reputation at stake
Sauvignon blanc is in danger of going the way of Kath and Kim's favourite tipple, chardonnay.

Wine: When worlds collide
Winemakers often have the best results when they combine old practices with new techniques.

Chocolate, red wine and coffee not on healthy heart list
Stop kidding yourself, The Australian Heart Foundation says, there is no cardiovascular health benefit from eating chocolate or drinking red wine.

Good taste: Emissions reduction
Cue the bubbly this month because it marks 16 years since I wrote my first wine column; even if it's not a round number, it's a good excuse to drink bubbles.

Wine: Bargain harvest buys
We're sitting at the top of a sun-drenched Hawkes Bay vineyard looking out to sea over heavily laden pinot gris vines which have just been harvested.

Wine: The feminine touch
Girl power is alive and well and flourishing in the local wine industry.

UV rays give Kiwi wines edge
Rays that cause skin cancer also make New Zealand sauvignon blanc unique, according to new research.

Wine: Nature vs nature
Winegrowers are increasingly fighting predators with predators, writes Jo Burzynska.

France: At the top of the food chain
France's southwest has turned taste into an art form, says Peter Calder.

Wine: Playing his cards right
Sometimes referred to as the godfather of pinot noir in New Zealand, he strides the landscape like Goliath.

France: The art of drinking anything at all
In French, they call it le signe oenologique, but that's the thing about French: words like oenology and gastronomy don't sound half as pretentious as they do in English.

A little riesling goes a long way
Last week I wrapped up by saying we can all drink expensive wine if we share the cost because enjoyment isn't always proportionate to volume.

A consistent obsession
"Thanks for turning up. Hardly anybody turns up for anything, these days."

Good Taste: The cost of a decent pinot noir
If you're wondering why good pinot noir costs a lot more than good shiraz, cabernet sauvignon or gewurztraminer, you're not alone.

Old Alsace in Otago
I've just tasted one of the world's best dry rieslings and it's from Central Otago. Prophet's Rock, to be exact.

Best in show
A wine bottle without a medal sticker is unusual, but how much credibility do awards have?