
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.
A new Government-backed push into the US aims to build a super premium wine category for the billion-dollar export industry.
Plans have been scrapped for a King's College after-ball where parents were going to buy their children alcohol.
DB Breweries has cautioned a small Tauranga church over a sign it says is similar to its Tui "Yeah Right" billboards.
A party consultant is telling high school students how they can get away with taking booze to after-ball parties.
Alcohol experts are warning parents to keep their children away from cheap, sweetly flavoured drinks laced with enough alcohol to kill them.
A wealthy developer has lost his claim to a $1 million wine stash from his top Otago winery.
Party politics still rule when it comes to tangling with the vested interests of the liquor and hospitality industries.
Closing times at 4am could put a dampener on RWC festivities but the Government says any changes would likely come in after 2011.
An increase in excise tax is among likely recommendations of a report into alcohol to be released next week, the Bill English says.
Unofficial estimates say that wine sales in Spain, the third largest producer in the world, have dropped by about 10 per cent.