Useful Wine Links

General

JancisRobinson.com - from one of the most well-respected experts in the wine profession - a prolific website with free access & members pages. Completely independent source of news, views and opinion on wine with a bit of food and travel thrown in, plus a database of over 60,000 tasting notes.

Tom Cannavan Wine Pages - One of the most comprehensive UK wine websites around.

thewinedoctor.com - Chris Kissack - a medic with a passion for wine - especially French! 

Wine Games

Eagles Grapevine has produced a blind wine tasting game that's good fun to play.

Wine Merchants

Oddbins.com - one of the best independent high street chains - helpful and knowledgeable staff.

Majestic Online - top by the case online wine warehouse.

The Wine Society - we think one of the best mail-order wine retailers in the UK. Fantastic range, quality, and price. Life membership £40 - bargain!

Countries & Regions

champagnes.com - official website for the Champagne wine industry. Masses of information, fantastic photo gallery - if only all wine regions had websites like this !

Wine Magazines 

Decanter is one of the best monthly magazines in the UK, full of useful and indepth information on wines, regions, with all the latest news. This link takes you through to their web site.

• Bomb squad destroys WWII wine cache
  A cache of pre-World War II wine found in a suburban garden was destroyed by the British army bomb squad, a reader recounts in this month's issue of Decanter magazine.
• Government alcohol ad 'scaremongering'
  New UK government guidelines warning that drinking two large glasses of wine a day triples the risk of mouth cancer are 'scaremongering’' an influential alcohol lobby group claims.
• Tertre Daugay renamed Chateau Quintus
  Chateau Tertre Daugay has been renamed Chateau Quintus, Domaine Clarence Dillon, owner of Chateau Haut-Brion and La Mission Haut-Brion, has announced.
• Chicago and Wharton in Bordeaux Cup final
  University of Chicago Business School and the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania have been selected as finalists in the Left Bank Bordeaux Cup.
• DRC releases 2009 with promise of 'steady' pricing
  Corney & Barrow has released the 2009 vintage from Domaine de la Romanee-Conti with a promise that future prices will be 'steady and logical'.
• UK to host next International Cool Climate Symposium
  The UK's status as a serious producer of cool-climate sparkling wines has been further cemented by the announcement that the ninth International Cool Climate Symposium will take place in the UK.
• Canada proposes national Icewine regulations to curb fraud
  In an attempt to curb fraud the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is proposing amendments to national regulations governing the production of Icewine.
• Fine wine company disappears leaving clients empty-handed
  Another UK fine wine company has disappeared from the radar leaving orders unfulfilled â€" while its director sets up a similar company under another name.
• Fine dining goes hi-tech as restaurants embrace iPad wine lists
  The UK's fine dining restaurants are rapidly turning their wine lists electronic, with the Vineyard at Stockcross the latest to embrace the iPad.
• Quarterly Review of Wines folds
  The Quarterly Review of Wines has ceased publication after 35 years â€" because, its publisher said, there is no longer any romance in wine.