• Home Page
• Events Calendar
• About Us
• Wine School Franchises
• Useful Wine Links
• Contact Us
• Newsletters

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.

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

Visit Lancashire - A useful tourist web site for the whole of Lancashire.

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.

• Relief in Cape as mining plans shelved
  Vineyard owners in the Western Cape are celebrating after a state-owned mining company withdrew plans to prospect in the area.
• Fake Bollinger being sold in London
  Hundreds of bottles of counterfeit Bollinger have been found in small West London retailers and bars.
• World's oldest whisky launched �� at ��10,000 a bottle
  The world's oldest single-malt whisky was launched at Edinburgh Castle on Thursday to the sound of bagpipes and accompanied by Highlander guards.
• Black Tower resurgent with 'premium' range
  German wine brand Black Tower has announced plans to produce a new range of Special Release wines, coupled with a new bottle design for the brand.
• Worry in Champagne as Heidsieck sheds jobs
  Jobs cuts announced at Piper & Charles Heidsieck, and reorganisation at LVMH have caused disquiet in Champagne.
• 'Exceptionally unusual' case of DRC under the hammer at Bonhams
  A rare and highly sought-after case of 1988 Domaine de la Roman��e-Conti could fetch up to ��40,000 when it is auctioned by Bonhams later this month.
• Moth threatens Napa vineyards
  A potentially devastating pest is threatening the vineyards of Napa Valley.
• Decanter writer knighted into the Gran Orden de Caballeros del Vino
  Decanter contributor Sarah Jane Evans MW was made a Knight of the Gran Orden de Caballeros del Vino last night.
• La Mission Haut-Brion white changes name
  The white wine of Ch��teau La Mission Haut-Brion, one of the most celebrated whites in Bordeaux, will change its name as of the 2009 vintage.
• Alto Adige growers head for the hills
  Growers in the Italian region of Alto Adige are turning to biodynamics and climbing to higher ground to avoid the potential effects of a warming climate.
• Fine wine at 14% alcohol is impossible - or is it?
  The great alcohol debate is alive and well, with the jury undecided as to whether higher levels of alcohol make or mar a fine wine, Andrew Jefford finds in the latest issue of Decanter.
• Jobs cut as Constellation looks to bottle wine in UK
  Constellation is axing 40 jobs in Australia as part of plans to bottle more of its wine in the UK.