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New Zealand produces excellent olive oil from locally grown olives. Top-quality oil prepared from avocadoes is also becoming popular.

New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, was signed in 1840. Waitangi is a place of historic significance.

New Zealand's capital city Wellington has more than 300 inner city cafes and restaurants, the highest concentration of eating establishments in New Zealand.

New Zealand’s newest and fastest growing wine region is Central Otago in the South Island, home of the southernmost vineyards in the world.

With more than 900 restaurants, visitors to New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland, will have no problem finding food that suits their fancy.

The romance of corked wine is giving way to the desire for 100 percent quality, with the development of screw capping instead of corking wine bottles.

Winemakers make good use of all of New Zealand's fruit, not just grapes. Fruit wines and liqueurs are gaining in popularity and quality.

Rising opera star Deborah Wai Kapohe is rapidly making a name for herself as the ultimate successor to New Zealand’s greatest ever soprano, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.

Kiwi Hollywood star Sam Neill owns the Two Paddocks vineyard in Queenstown in the South Island.

Situated in the Auckland Viaduct Harbour, Servilles Spa is a purpose-built day spas with a view to help melt the stress away