Useful Wine Links

General

www.jancisrobinson.com - one of the most highly-respected experts in the wine profession. A prolific website and independent source of news, views and opinion on wine plus a database of around 60,000 tasting notes.

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

Accommodation

The Spires Serviced Suites : These newly built luxury serviced apartments offer you the ultimate accommodation experience. Recognised by Marketing Birmingham as ‘gold standard’ due to its excellent customer service and first class accommodation and recently awarded the "Very Quiet" award from Venere.com, The Spires Birmingham offers you all the service you’d expect from a 4* hotel…….all the space you wouldn’t.

Very useful for our Saturday and weekend events...

Event/Meetings Rooms 

If you're looking to hold an event at somewhere just that little bit different and special, than look at 60 Severn Street, located adjacant to the Mail Box in Birmingham. Undoubtedly Birmingham's best kept secret, a "little gem" of a Function & Banqueting Room hidden away in the heart of the City of Birmingham. 60 Severn Street is a Victorian Masonic Hall whose 150 year history is interwoven with that of Birmingham.  Formerly a Jewish Synagogue, it is located adjacent to the iconic shopping complex, the Mail Box

The Gourmet Society

Wine Merchants

Majestic Online - top by the case online wine warehouse. Now with 6 bottle minimum.

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!

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.

• Chicago and Wharton in Bordeaux Cup final
  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.
• Chapoutier pours scorn on natural winemakers
  Renowned Rhone producer Michel Chapoutier has added to the natural wine debate by denouncing natural winemakers as out-of-touch hippies making defective wines.
• Wine Australia axes wine export panel
  Wine Australia has axed its controversial export approval panel with immediate effect, replacing it with a permanent company audit regime.
• Bordeaux 2011: Calls for price drop after 'arrogant' 2010s
  Bordeaux was 'arrogant' in its pricing last year, the managing director of Chateau Lafite has told Decanter.com as merchants call on Bordeaux to come down in price on the 2011s.