Legal Notice

Publication

The Wairau Cellar is an independent journal of Marlborough wine published at huia.net.nz. The journal is not a winery, importer, retailer or agent, and it does not sell, broker or promote the sale of any wine. Wineries, estates and other businesses named in its pages are described in the third person as subjects of reportage; no such entity controls, reviews or funds the journal's content.

Publisher

The site is published by the journal's editorial team. Correspondence goes to [email protected] through the contact page. For New Zealand purposes, the site's content is informational journalism about wine and the region, and nothing on it constitutes commercial communication for alcohol.

Intellectual property

The guides, layout and commissioned images of this site belong to the journal. Short quotations with a link are welcome; wholesale republication, scraping and mirror copies are not. Historical addresses of this domain that no longer resolve are either redirected to the nearest current page or retired; the redirect table is published in the site's operations notes.

Accuracy and liability

Vintage descriptions, weather accounts and natural history follow the published record at the time of writing and are corrected when the record improves. Nothing on this site is professional, medical or oenological advice, and the journal accepts no liability for decisions made on the basis of its pages. Prices, availability and producer details change without notice.

Privacy

The site serves static pages and collects no accounts, comments or forms. Standard, privacy respecting analytics and the server logs of its hosting provider are the only records kept of visits. Mail sent to the editorial address is kept for the purpose it was sent and shared with no one.

Alcohol

Content on this site discusses alcoholic beverages in an informational context. It is intended for readers of legal purchase age in their jurisdiction, and the journal supports responsible consumption.