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WINE Ninety-seven gold medals have been handed out at this year’s Air New Zealand Wine Awards with 90 percent of these medals going to sustainable wines. For the fifth year running, Pinot Noir came up trumps with the highest gold medal tally at 21...

We had some fascinating wines at the Spectator Wine School’s penultimate class of term this week. The theme was wines of the New World and our poor students had drawn the short straw in that they had me hosting the two hour session. Usually each class...

George Geris’ winemaking career began in a secondhand bookstore in Greece, where he bought himself a wine book. Then on a backpacking trip around Europe after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in engineering from New Zealand’s Canterbury University...

Picture: Christian Schiller, John Forrest from Forrest Estate and Annette Schiller from ombiasyPR and WineTours One of the wine success stories in the past couple of decades is New Zealand. New Zealand’s wine makers have penetrated the global wine market...

New World Picks (and notes from the California Wine Fair) By David Lawrason with notes from Sara d’Amato David Lawrason The first week of fine weather in Ontario for many months has also kicked off the busiest period of wine tasting events of the...