I visit New Zealand frequently for my consulting and see trunk disease damage in every region, as I do around the world.

Recently there has been considerable media coverage of the news that New Zealand wine has become the number three imported wine into the US, with only France and Italy ahead of us.

From the early stages of his scientific career, Dr Brian Jordan has been focusing on the impact light has on plant development.

When MW Bob Campbell urged NZ Riesling producers to utilise a taste profile on their labels at the recent Aromatics symposium, there was one person in the room who broke into a wide smile.

There have long been calls for regulations to control the disposal and reuse of glass by introducing Container Deposit Legislation (CDL).

Unless you were in an area where you felt the full force of the November 14 Kaikoura earthquake, it is hard to comprehend the intensity of it.

At the recent elections for NZWinegrowers Inc, there was a noticeable lack of female candidates.

Within New Zealand Winegrowers’ Vineyard Ecosystems Programme, scientists are determined to discover if ground cover plants can help to reduce the adverse economic influence of grapevine leafroll virus.

I saw this great headline a few weeks back that basically summed up the weather so far this year: “2016, the hottest on record, but summer doesn’t appear to have got the memo.”

New Zealand is under the spotlight as a world-class wine producer over the next two weeks.