The wine industry is alive with stupidity. From 100- point scores to big companies destroying much-loved brands, to absurd restaurant mark-u...

New Zealand wine is an economic powerhouse.  Kiwi wines are exported to more than 100 countries and wine is New Zealand’s seventh-largest ex...

When I wrote a story about the embryonic New Zealand wine industry in the early 1990s, the wine grape most grown at that time was the obscur...

The great Californian wine marketer Robert Mondavi created the name Fumé Blanc in the 1960s to differentiate sauvignon blanc aged in oak bar...

I hate to say I told you so, but I did forecast a sauvignon blanc glut coming when I saw all the new vineyard plantings in Marlborough a dec...

Air New Zealand will soon be flying direct from Auckland to New York - and is also introducing its own wines for flyers to enjoy en route.  ...

Younger wine lovers may find find it hard to believe, but there was a time when Marlborough sauvignon blanc did not exist.  While the style ...

New Zealand winery Giesen - one of the pioneers in the low-alcohol wine market - is upping the ante with a new range. Giesen says there is i...

  Younger wine lovers may find it hard to believe but just over 30 years ago sauvignon blanc was pretty much a rarity in Australia.  Before ...