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The Dish: Foodie Fundraiser
Prepare to eat a lot when some of Auckland's top eateries team up for the annual Mercy Hospital Degustation Brunch fundraiser.

Wine: The new frontier
Our new generation of vintners aren't afraid to push the boundaries and think outside the square with their winemaking.

Wine: Presentation is key
How we present ourselves says a lot about us to other people, and the same applies to how wines are presented to us, if the nakedly ambitious marketing of champagne, organic wines and pinot noirs I've seen recently is anything to go by.

Wine: Tackling our drinking problem
Increasing taxes is not the right way to go about changing our attitude to alcohol

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: Mix and match, Italian style
After going on record last week about Italian wine being astonishingly food-friendly, I thought I should put up or shut up.

Italians take it from the top
It is without doubt one of the great global brands, producing some of the world's finest wines.

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

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.

A vine upbringing
Kati Kasza's father instilled in her a love of plants and the importance of seeking quality.

Good taste: The 'savalanche'
"Kiwi savvy" has commanded the highest per litre price of any wine sold in the UK for more than a decade.

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.