New World Wine Awards 2014 announced
The results of the New World Wine Awards have been released with New Zealand wines scooping the three top awards and over 60% of the medals (including nearly three-quarters of all the Gold medals).
Big brand beers face legal action in the US
In lawsuits which could have implications around the world, several plaintiffs claim brewery giant Anheuser-Busch is misleading customers by not clearly informing them that Kirin and Beck’s beers sold in America are now brewed there, not in Japan or Germany.
Award for Excellence in Food Safety
The Produce Marketing Association Australia-New Zealand’s (PMA A-NZ) Technology Manager Richard Bennett has received an award for Excellence in Food Safety.
Vegetarian Awareness Month begins
Between looking for a more ethical way of eating, following the advice of health professionals to reduce cholesterol and celebrity endorsements of the lifestyle, vegetarianism is now very much mainstream.
Recall: Macro Brazil, Almond and Cashew Spread
Progressive Enterprises Ltd is initiating a recall of all batches of Woolworths Macro Brazil, Almond and Cashew spread as the product may contain peanuts.
From the editor’s library
Once they couldn’t give it away, now it’s liquid gold. Local legend has it that manuka honey was once so hard to sell that a Great Barrier Island man might have dropped his entire harvest into the sea, so low was the price he was offered for it.
A match made in heaven
A perfect marriage of New Zealand’s best milk and New Zealand’s best chocolate is about to hit local stores.
Celebrate NZ cheese!
New Zealand Cheese Month kicks off this week, with the country’s top specialist cheese makers, major supermarkets and cheesemongers all supporting the month long celebration of Kiwi cheese.
Shiraz/Syrah shines at the New World Wine Awards 2014
The highest number of medals ever was awarded at the New World Wine Awards 2014, following a record number of entries.
Supreme award for Sealord smoked salmon
Sealord Group’s Hot Manuka Smoked Salmon received a resounding thumbs up from both the professional panel of judges and the consumer judging panel at this year’s New Zealand Food Awards.
Scotch whisky exports tumble 11%
The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has published figures which show that exports of Scotch in the first half of the 2014 year were £1.77 billion (NZ$3.6 billion), down 11% from £1.99 billion (NZ$4.05 billion) in the same period of 2013.
Prime Minister lauds Kiwi wine industry
Re-elected Prime Minister John Key may have enjoyed a glass or two after his historic win on 20 September but when he opened the recent NZ Winegrowers’ Romeo Bragato conference in Blenheim it had been five weeks since his last drink.