Results in from NZIWS 2024
One of the downsides of travelling overseas is the stuff you miss out on whilst you’re away from home. I was in Europe for six weeks recently, and couldn’t do …
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Another ‘fake wine’ scandal is brewing – this time in Taiwan.
A Taiwanese billionaire, Wood Chen, is being linked to a new ‘fake wine’ scandal with links to some of the country’s leading tycoons. Two merchants, Top 100 Wine and UMC …
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Pernod Ricard to sell its wine brands
Pernod Ricard announced yesterday the signing of an agreement to sell its international strategic wine brands to Australian Wine Holdco Limited (AWL), a consortium of international institutional investors – and …
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25 Years of Cuvée No.1
25 years ago, on Bastille Day 1999, Adele and Daniel Le Brun released Cuvée No.1, the first Marlborough Méthode Traditionelle from their company No.1 Family Estate. To celebrate the new venture …
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Winning ‘Wine Options’
‘Wine Options’ is a competition where teams of four people combine knowledge, memory, ability to taste, and some inspired guesswork to determine the identity of eight wines. The game is …
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Church Road win ‘Best International Chardonnay’ at IWC
Hawke’s Bay winery Church Road has been awarded ‘Best International Chardonnay’ for its 2021 Grand Reserve Chardonnay at the International Wine Challenge (IWC) earlier this month. The wine also won …
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James Millton convicted for smuggling vine cuttings into NZ
Winemaker and vineyard owner James Millton – who in 2012 was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the New Zealand wine industry – …
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Drops of God – Apple TV+
Great TV, or film, that has wine as a central theme, can be hard to find. There is ‘Sideways’ of course – the film (from the book by Rex Pickett) …
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Michael Brajkovich MW announced as 2024 Winemakers’ Winemaker from the Masters of Wine Institute
Presented by the Institute of Masters of Wine and the drinks business since 2011, the award of ‘Winemaker’s Winemaker’ recognises outstanding achievement in winemaking. Masters of Wine winemakers and the …
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Paris restaurant La Tour d’Argent ‘loses’ more than NZ2.5m worth of wine
One of the most famous restaurants in the world – certainly from a wine lover’s perspective – La Tour d’Argent in Paris – appears to missing wines worth around 2.5 …
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