This year has been a dream run eating out-wise. All the restaurants I've reviewed have been wonderful, hence the high scores.

Rum, which largely fell out of favour after a guy in a tuxedo showed up in a secret agent movie and asked for a vodka martini, is becoming popular in the US once more.

A group of French winemakers have been found guilty of selling fake Pinot Noir to the US.

Joelle Thomson talks to one of the founding fathers of Marlborough's wine industry.

Many readers will remember the very cool restaurant Musical Knives on Ponsonby Rd.

Rose wine delights the eye as well as the palate.

The silicon present in beer helps improve bone mineral density, scientists say.

Should we be drinking Champagne in those larger, rounder, balloonish burgundy-style glasses rather than elegant, long, thin-stemmed flutes?

Put yourself on course to becoming a wine buff with one of the many classes available throughout the country.

Five winegrowers specialising in five separate grape varieties have joined forces to market their brands to the world's fussiest wine drinkers.

When Kate Radburnd speaks, the wine world generally listens.

Be inspired and put wine on top of the 2010 agenda.

Plans for Tuscan-influenced Isola Estate clashed with recession.

Wine drinkers should switch to lower-alcohol varieties to reduce their chances of getting cancer, scientists say.

Looking back at the successes and failures of 2009.

Esk Valley produces some of our best wines, discovers Joelle Thomson.

Our wine writer reflects on a year of good wine, great prices and new styles.

The vineyards of France have long regarded themselves as the toast of the wine world.

We're only three days into the new decade and already I'm deluged with a downpour of wines.

The wine glut has been a challenge to the New Zealand wine industry this year.

In the first of a series of winery profiles, Joelle Thomson visits the tiny but top-notch Kumeu River Winery in West Auckland.

If you're heading to new territories these holidays, check out the cellar doors of the local vineyards.

Here today, gone tomorrow. Joanna Hunkin looks at the international fascination with pop-up bars and their rise in New Zealand.