The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships is the most respected, comprehensive and rigorous international sparkling wine competition in the world, judged by renowned fizz experts Tom Stevenson, Essi Avellan MW and Dr Tony Jordan.Louis Roederer was awarded Sparkling Wine Producer of the … read more

Ged Feltham, founder of Portobello Road Gin has been named by The Drinks Business as the Man of Year for 2017. A bartender by trade, Ged Feltham is the founder and driving force behind the UK’s fastest growing independent gin brand. Just five years ago, he developed a new brand in an upstairs fl … read more

Klipdrift Premium has been named 2016’s World’s Best Brandy at the World Brandy Awards.Devotees of a regular ‘Klippies and coke’ might not recognise the World Brandy Awards panel’s description of Klipdrift Premium’s “aromas of milk chocolate, sponge cake and caramel”, “gentle woodiness” and “a … read more

New Zealand’s hospitality elite met at Auckland’s St Matthews Church on Monday June 8th, anxiously awaiting the results of the 2015 Cuisine Magazine NZ Good Food Awards. Once again Pegasus Bay was named top of its category and awarded a coveted Chefs Hat.As New Zealand’s only national hospital … read more