Pinot Noir New Zealand 2010 has already begun today in Wellington and continues for the rest of the week. The nation's seaside capital city is currently host to a wide range of wine-loving...

One important feature of tomorrow’s annual generic tasting of New Zealand wines in its major export market the UK will be the presentation of sweet wines (‘wines over 15% potential alcohol’...

Rod Easthope, winemaker at Craggy Range in New Zealand with quite a bit of South African winemaking experience under his belt, brought a few intriguing bottles over from Hawke’s Bay on his...

To European colonists, the Marlborough region in New Zealand must have looked ideal for grape-growing: striking hillsides offering every thinkable variation of aspect, gradient, exposure and soil...

Kevin Judd, for more than 20 years the winemaker at Cloudy Bay, one of the most successful producers and marketers of New Zealand Sauvignon ever , has just released his first wine under his own...

A request in this thread in member's forum for tasting notes for the admirable Dog Point wines reminded me that it was high time I published the notes I took on my whirl around New Zealand last...

English-born, Melbourne-based wine writer Max Allen, who is in the process of explaining biodynamics to the Australian wine industry via www.redwhiteandgreen.com.au , and was recently chief...

See 160 new NZ tasting notes . Despite bumper harvests in 2008 and 2009 in New Zealand, I am more optimistic about the quality of wine coming out of the North and South islands than I...

We have just added a further 45 tasting notes to the original 115, so can now offer descriptions of 160 significant New Zealand wines. This collection is a combination of notes taken at the...

As predicted in Marlborough 2009 - another glut , official figures suggest that the 2009 vintage will be about as big as last year’s enormous harvest in New Zealand, swollen by huge crop levels...

Obsessive tweeter Ryan Opaz, IT advisor to the wine trade, recently suggested to me that a film of a trade tasting might be of general interest. It so happened that the first one I attended with...

On my last visit to New Zealand earlier this year I met the most extraordinary wine producer. Hiro Kusuda, a genial 45-year-old ex lawyer and diplomat, admits that to pursue his dream he and his...

Below are notes I took at the home of Hiro Kusuda in New Zealand in February 2009. See my profile of him tomorrow in the FT and in Free for all. He's pictured here (foreground) with his wife...

After 30 years of captivating consumers with distinctive flavours ranging from gooseberry to nettles via passionfruit, cat’s pee, asparagus, citrus and capsicum, New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc...

The surprisingly good quality of the 2008 vintage currently on offer from Bordeaux has prompted comparisons with other good, recent vintages, of which the revered 2005 is the most obvious...