A new study of NZ's six major wine-growing regions has uncovered an hidden factor in what sets the flavours and aromas of vintages in different regions.

Foley Family Wines said full-year operating earnings more than doubled on increased sales of bottled wine in Australia and New Zealand.

Graham Norton can now add "chief winemaker" to his CV, after he created his own blend of New Zealand sauvignon blanc - which hits Kiwi stores today.

One of the wine industry's best-known names is back in the business, and doing things very differently this time round. Regan Schoultz reports.

Talk show king Graham Norton has been moonlighting as a winemaker, and his latest 2015 Sauvignon Blanc is anything but your standard celebrity tipple. This year he’s gone hands-on, and added his “Norton Hemisphere” magic to Invivo’s Southern Hemisphere Sauvignon Blanc grapes – by personally blending his 2015 vintage! The final blend features Sauvignon Blanc from three of Invivo’s Marlborough growers.

Q&A with Jean-Christophe Poizat, founder of French fine wine merchant Maison Vauron, about doing business in NZ.

Peter Scutts will serve a sentence of 8 months' home detention after being found to have taken almost $65,000 in kickbacks.

Blenheim-based power company Marlborough Lines has bought an 80pc stake in Yealands Wine Group for $89 million.

The High Court maintained a strict line against commercial bribery in finding Peter Scutts guilty, Bell Gully says.

Kiwi wines are hitting the spot in the United States, with new figures showing a big jump in sales.

If each new vintage is like a newborn baby, then Nick Nobilo who today is appointed an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit has a lot of children to keep track of.

Red, russet, carmine-coloured and crimson, earthy tones and splashes of spice — these arbiters of autumnal awesomeness will do more than fill your alliteration quota for the week ...

Former New Zealand Wine Company chief executive Peter Scutts' kickbacks trial hinged partly on the date of a letter.

Former New Zealand Wine Company chief executive Peter Scutts has been found guilty of taking kickbacks.

Don’t mess around with “medium” this week. Thankfully you don’t need to be a bungy-jumping, cross-fitting, skydiving fanatic to show your appreciation of the extreme ...

Your horoscope said something about taking a walk on the wild side this weekend, didn’t it? So here are three wines that will take your taste buds on a memorable trip.

The trial of former New Zealand Wine Company chief executive Peter Scutts over allegations of kickbacks continues today in the High Court at Auckland.

Looking for love in all the wrong places? Sometimes all it takes is a sip of something sensational to put you back on track.

Melanie Brown's campaign to raise £35,000 to set up a specialist wine store in Brixton, London, has exceeded its target.

That cool pinot gris you enjoy after a tough day at the office is really just a mutant spin-out of pinot noir - or so scientists have found.

A Kiwi woman has launched a Kickstarter campaign in the hopes of raising £35,000 to set up a specialist wine store in Brixton, London.

So yes, we’ve been pushed into autumn, and while your tan may be fading, don’t let your taste buds suffer the same fate

Pinot gris has proved an unstoppable force in this country. Our wineries now crush a whopping 24,000 tonnes; 1500 times the volume of 2005. But not all pinot gris is the same — some super-dry, right through to luxuriously rich, sweeter styles.

One hundred years ago, a teenaged Josip Babich removed the boots in which he'd trudged through muddy swamps searching for kauri gum - and trampled delicate grapes with his bare feet.

Give your tastebuds an everlasting summer with these luscious, aromatic wines. Wild flowers, berries, citrus, stonefruit and spice — they’re all here in fine form …

Peter Calder revisits the chunk of Auckland's west where immigrant families from Croatia settled to grow fruit - and make wine - for the expanding city.

Something wild, something wonderful and the much-anticipated release of a national treasure — March seems to be the month that keeps on giving ...