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The hardest part of rappelling can be taking those first few steps in which a rope and harness are needed not to fall, and these steps symbolically represent charitable giving.

To assist with your explorations, five members of the Wine Spectator editorial team share the wines they’re excited to try, from classic Champagne to the best of California and Italy to sweet wines to cap off the night.

At the New York Wine Experience, the Marlborough winemaker carries on a distinguished Sauvignon Blanc legacy at Allan Scott Family Winemakers.

For the first time, Wine Spectator editors have selected their Top 10 Values of the Year: the best-priced wines that over-delivered on quality. A New Zealand pioneer leads the pack. Find out who made this outstanding value!

Supplied Artist Linda Trubridge and her elder son Sam in front of Linda’s Wall of Wings sculpture for Havelock North, in 2004. Ahead of many successful Kiwis, there’s often a mother who showed them the way. Sarah Catherall hears how these women inspired their kids then, and now. Linda, William and Sam Trubridge Linda Trubridge is an artist and yoga teacher, who is married to lighting designer David Trubridge. Her book, Passages, is about her family’s adventures at sea. Their sons are Sam, an artistic director who founded Wellington’s Performance Arcade, and William, a world-renowne...