New Zealand Winegrowers is warning that The Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act (Community Participation) Bill could be a major blow for New Zealand wine tourism…

Entries are now open for the New Zealand International Wine Show – the largest wine judging competition in the country and one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere…

New Zealander Dr John Barker has been elected as the new Director General of The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV)…

Hospitality NZ has announced Steve Armitage as the organisation’s new Chief Executive, effective from the 14th of August…

Reefton Distilling Co. has become the first New Zealand distillery to sell whisky to the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) in Scotland…

Alcohol licensing lawyer Pervinder Kaur answers the questions she hears most often around liquor and the law…

A small town with big successes, Joelle Thomson explains why Martinborough is such a special spot for Pinot Noir devotees…

Michael Donaldson takes us behind the scenes of the New World Beer & Cider Awards 2023…

New Zealand breweries have scooped all three Champion International Brewery trophies at the 2023 Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA) held in Melbourne…

Entries are now open for the New Zealand Beer Awards, which recognise excellence in beer and honour outstanding achievements across New Zealand’s brewing industry…

Hawke’s Bay has been named a ‘Great Wine Capital’ of the world’, setting it alongside 11 other prestigious wine regions such as Bordeaux, Napa Valley, Bilbao, and Adelaide…

The inaugural Aotearoa New Zealand Chardonnay Symposium is to be held in Te Matau-a-Māui Hawke’s Bay on 5-6 October 2023…

Bacardi Limited has announced the appointment of Luiz Schmidt as Managing Director of Bacardi in Australia and New Zealand…

Some of Aotearoa’s newest, smallest and most remote craft breweries have won a place in the just-announced New World Beer & Cider Awards Top 30…

The Trusts plans to open up to 10 new hospitality venues and retail stores in Auckland’s west over the next five years, investing more than $40 million over that time…

Medal winners in the 2023 New Zealand Spirits Awards have been announced following a record number of local and international entries…

The NZ Alcohol Beverages Council says the current review of the Sale & Supply of Alcohol Act (Community Participation) Bill is timely, but warns that in its current form at Select Committee it will “more than likely make it harder for communities to have a say”…

New Zealand Winegrowers has welcomed the announcement that the UK FTA will enter into force on 31 May 2023…

Italy’s Gambero Rosso is bringing a showcase of top Italian wines to Auckland in May with its ‘Tre Biccheri World Tour’...

A new hospitality industry scholarship valued at NZD $30,000 is open to candidates across New Zealand and aims to attract more young people into hospitality as a career…