Food & Wine

From a once staple menu of sausage rolls, meat pies, fish and chips, pavlova, and Anzac biscuits, great Kiwi eats have evolved with the world.

Clean and green, wholesome and healthy, New Zealanders are keen producers of organic food, wine and beer.

As sunshine hours lengthen and the annual school and work calendar winds down in preparation for Christmas and the long summer holidays, New Zealand swings into outdoor mode with feasts, festivals and fun on the programme.

Ruth Pretty is a household name in New Zealand, recognised for her range of cookbooks, newspaper columns, TV appearances and catering business.

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

Sam Neill may be an international man of movies, but his heart belongs to New Zealand – and you can pinpoint the spot to three paddocks in the ruggedly beautiful region of Central Otago.

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.

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

Spring in New Zealand is a season of colour, new life, new harvests of food and wine and exciting arts and cultural events.

Sweet as ... girls can do just about anything they desire or imagine in New Zealand.