Wine Appreciation

A simple site, full of the author's enthusiasm for Burgundy. Definitely worth a look.

With links to over 15000 sites, you are sure to find the right wine website.

A great magazine site from the world-famous Robert Parker.

The tasting note data collected in this site is worthy of any wine-lover's attention.

Full marks for this port enthusiast's site>

A good site from a well known and respected member of the wine scene.

Kincaid's site is one you'll either love or hate.

Premier resource for unbiased reviews on wine

Rose Murray Brown's courses held in Scotland are clearly full of fun and you learn something too.

Learn about your booze, as you drink it!

There is a folksy and very welcoming feel to this lovely site. Art and Betsy's visitors are treated as an extended family and the authors' love of wine and obvious joy in sharing it with an online community set this site apart from many. You may find it a little unwieldy to use, and the standard is a little variable, but it is charming and down to earth as well as being packed with information.

There's a rebellious spirit of mischief and lack of snobbery about this site that is quite infectious. Having said that, these Dubliners know their stuff and obviously have a passion for both the subject and for spreading the good word about the joy and fun of wine. As a repository of good information and as an ongoing diary of the lives of some down-to-earth wine nuts, it is worth a visit.

That an academic institution and a learned team of researchers should present their work in such an open and enjoyable format is highly commendable. This site is well worth a visit if you are at all interested in the origins of wine. The story itself is quite absorbing, and it is told in a totally approachable and entertaining manner.

Whilst of fairly specialised interest, this site is a terrific resource for anyone with general questions about grapes, or who has ever wondered about that unusual bottle picked up on a foreign holiday. The massive file size requires a little patience when downloading, but the quality of content, cross-referencing and thoroughness is entirely commendable.

A nicely realised site that gives easy access to the information you need to find and book up for one of the WSET’s courses or events.

This site has been around for a while, but a fresh new look for 2000 has made it much more attractive and easier to use. It perhaps lacks a bit of substance, spreading content a little thin, but the mix of factual reference material and intelligent, thought-provoking articles gives the site more breadth and depth than most. Another not to miss.

It is worth bookmarking this site as new content is added regularly.

The wine FAQ is widely regarded as one of the best wine reference works on the Web. This is not a flashy site. It is very straightforward in its presentation, a little old-fashioned in its look and feel and it makes no attempt to get out there and grab your attention. What you have is an extremely useful and well-informed reference work that you can take down off the shelf, dust off and use whenever you need to. A very valuable resource.

Despite the occasional inconsistency in look and feel and the rather haphazard organisation, this remains an exemplary site in terms of content, expertise and objective advice. The author's gentle yet authoritative presence is felt throughout the interactive areas, and everyone from beginner to expert will find something to delight. Very highly recommended: a benchmark site.

Wine tastings for private and corporate clients.

Even if Tom wasn't the author of the book The Good Web Guide to Wine, his site would easily deserve a five-star rating.

Up against the hundreds of wine sites out there in cyber-space, Unusual Wine's ace in the pack is its unique subject matter allied to a terrific sense of fun. Don't come here for an all-round wine education or extensive library of tasting notes, but just to marvel at some of the most strange and outrageous products the wine world has to offer.

There's something very friendly and welcoming about this site that makes it worth a few minutes of your cyber-time. The repository of notes is useful and reliable and there's something on every page for a wine-nut to mull over.

For visits to Northern California wineries, this site is a must.

Ken Inglis has a direct, enthusiastic and very well-informed approach to wine that shines through in this site. If his promises to update more frequently can be realised then the site should become a regular stopping point for the online wine lover. Whether or not this happens, the repository of useful and reliable notes merits inclusion in this guide.

A stylish and well constructed site. The audio reports and whizzy Psion download add great appeal and are unique selling points. The rest of the site needs to be beefed out a little, but that is not to deny its usefulness, nor the quality in evidence.

A very well-designed and easy-to-use site, it strikes a good balance. As well as serious, expert scrutiny of wine and wine-making, there is much of more general interest, often with a sprinkling of irreverent humour.

There is an absolute mountain of wine-related material on this site. Rarely is each of the 600 plus fine wine tasting notes presented simply as a factual description of the stuff in the bottle: more often there is a description of the events surrounding its drinking, or a little mini-essay on the wine and its background. This site is very much a ‘YakFest’ and as much about the man as the wine, but it is highly readable and extremely entertaining.