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Weekend wine guide: Red, white and a sense of place

Individual vineyards produce wines that have a style of their own.

Duncan Garner: Digital devices are stealing our kids - can we stop it?

Why I want kids to spend less time on devices and more time connected to the real world.

The Good Life: When intrepid family members return to rural NZ

"She and Miles had concocted a top-secret plan to smuggle her into our paddock."

The Good Life: A Tripod, the Master and a chinwag

The Master and I compared the length of our chainsaw bars. His was longer.

Wine exports to the US rose 25% in the past year, but there are bars as well as stars

Let’s hope Americans stay in love with Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc.

Viral warfare against a pathogen that devastates bee colonies has scientists abuzz

Any beekeeper will tell you that American foulbrood is a terrible thing.

Chain of events: Recovering from a traumatic brain injury

How a decision to ride a mountain-bike track in bad weather changed everything.

Marc Wilson: Tattoos are more than a form of self-expression

Tattoo owners are indistinguishable from the un-inked in general mental health.

The Good Life: One of a kind in the chicken coop

"I’d say her eggs have a rather uncanny likeness to a certain politician."

Wine guide: A new map of Marlborough challenges the status quo

Rightly ambitious, the map producers have taken their lead from major European regions.

Charlotte Grimshaw: A story in the doctor’s notes

A gastroenterologist who told her recently, “I’d like to write a song about my work.”

Marc Wilson: The ancient political psychology question

When we tick the boxes on the ballot paper, are we voting for or against something?

The Holst diaries: Alison Holst taught us that food is an intrinsic part of history

Part two of Colleen Brown culling her cookbook collection.

How honest arguments make us smarter at work and happier at home

Pretending everything is okay to avoid conflict can have long-term consequences.

Weekend wine guide: The untapped potential of a tempranillo

New Zealand is punching above its weight when it comes to the Spanish red.

Peter Griffin: We need a more substantial commitment to digital equity initiatives

About 130,000 Kiwi households still don’t have internet access. That needs to change.