Nelson Wineart is pleased to announce this year’s Nelson New Release Tasting Event will offer local wine aficionados the chance to taste the new releases of more winemakers than ever before in the event’s six year history.

New releases, new wine labels and award-winners will be on offer at this year’s Hot Red Hawke’s Bay, the region’s flagship wine event being held next week.

A meta-analysis of multiple studies across animal species has found no evidence that resveratrol, the ingredient trumpeted as a health benefit in red wine, actually leads to higher-order species’ such as humans living longer.

Villa Maria has pulled off the extraordinary, taking out Supreme Wine of the Show for the third consecutive year at the Gisborne Regional Wine Awards 2013.

Villa Maria has received two gold medals at the prestigious International Wine Challenge in London.

Golds were awarded to the Single Vineyard Southern Clays Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2012 and the Private Bin Hawkes Bay Syrah 2010.

A new range of ‘Landscape’ wines has just ben launched as part of the much loved Whitecliff family of wines.

The 2012 Landscape range includes Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Merlot and Shiraz.

Sixteen of the world’s most influential wine critics experienced GIMBLETT GRAVELS wines and hospitality yesterday as part of their tour of New Zealand’s wine regions.

In a tasting littered with some of the biggest names in French Champagne, New Zealand’s only exclusive producer of sparkling wines, No. 1 Family Estate has come out on top with their limited release ‘Cuvee Remy 2007’.

‘Chardonnay is back in fashion,’ says Blair Gibbs, general manager of one of Marlborough’s most successful family-owned wineries. Given the top quality and stunning value of Spy Valley Marlborough Chardonnay 2011, it certainly deserves to be.

Fifteen trophies were announced at the second annual Marlborough Wine Show awards dinner held in Blenheim on Saturday night, with the O-I Champion Wine of the Show awarded to Lawson’s Dry Hills for their Pinot Noir 2010.