Cuisine (magazine)

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Cuisine
May 2008 issue
Editor	Michael McKay (editorial director)
Categories	Food and Wine
Frequency	Bi-monthly
First issue	1986
Company	Fairfax Media
Country	New Zealand
Website	http://www.cuisine.co.nz

Cuisine is a bi-monthly food magazine published in New Zealand. It began publication in 1986, and has also existed in website form since December 2000. The magazine features recipes, restaurant reviews, wine reviews and travel features. Cuisine has won numerous food media awards, including second best food magazine at the World Food Media Awards in 1997; best food magazine at the Gourmet Voice World Media Awards in 2006, and best food magazine at the 2007 Le Cordon Bleu Food Media Awards.

Cuisine is unusual in having no overall editor; its current editorial director is Michael McKay.

[edit] Wither Hills wine controversy

In 2006, Wither Hills Sauvignon Blanc 2006 was stripped of its five-star rating by Cuisine after scientific tests by Institute of Environmental Science and Research revealed that the wine submitted for review was not the same as that available in shops.[1] The magazine's wine critic, Michael Cooper, said he was told that the magazine's publishers, Fairfax Media, would not be making the reason for the reversal public. He then went to the New Zealand Herald with the story, and his contract, which was to come to an end the following year, was terminated early. [2]