There is compelling evidence that increasing the legal alcohol purchasing age reduces harm and saves lives, a US professor has told MPs.

I had a wonderful experience recently when I attended a tasting of Hallertau's beers at a rather salubrious Mt Eden hostelry.

Would-be liquor merchants are flooding NZ with applications for new bottle shops before an expected law tightening, a liquor chain says.

The ink is almost dry on a deal to finally revamp Auckland's tired Victoria Park Market.

Monteith's Golden Lager has taken out the top title at the competition in London.

For years, I watched my mother slowly and progressively kill herself through the bottle. I made the decision then not to drink.

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