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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!

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...

Gourmet Society

Enjoy 2 for 1 meals at hundreds of Birmingham restaurants with the Gourmet Society Dining Card.

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 - 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.

• Australia banned from using Champagne, Sherry and Port on labels
  Australian winemakers have been banned from using the words Champagne, Port and Sherry on their labels under a major EU deal.
• Nine new Masters of Wine announced
  Nine new Masters of Wine have been announced today, including three Decanter World Wine Awards judges and one DWWA regional chair.
• English sparkling beats top Champagnes at Decanter World Wine Awards
  East Sussex winery Ridgeview took the top sparkling wine trophy at last night's Decanter World Wine Awards �� to the amazement of its owners.
• Galilean winery in Rhone triumph
  A winery in Upper Galilee beat some of the world's most renowned producers of Syrah and Shiraz at the Decanter World Wine Awards.
• Diageo calls for taxation shake-up
  Drinks giant Diageo is calling for all drinks to be taxed at the same rate per unit of alcohol, regardless of whether they are beer, wine or spirits.
• Bordeaux harvest starts this week at Carbonnieux
  Chateau Carbonnieux in Pessac Leognan is due to begin picking its Sauvignon Blanc grapes at the end of this week after a 'roller-coaster' season of highs and lows.
• Dubai airport breaks duty-free wine sale record
  A fine wine store at Dubai Airport is claiming a world record after a customer spent a total of US$107,000 on eight bottles of wine.
• 'Perfect' auction lot to be offered at US wine festival
  The Naples (Florida) Winter Wine Festival will offer an unprecedented auction lot of 100 bottles of 100-point wines at its annual event in January.
• Thierry Manoncourt dies
  Thierry Manoncourt, the owner of Ch��teau Figeac in St Emilion, has died aged 92.
• DWWA medal winners touch down in Argentina
  More than 50 Argentinian sommeliers attended the first-ever Decanter World Wine Awards tasting in Argentina.
• New York harvest earlier, larger than 2009
  New York anticipates a larger and much earlier harvest this year than it had in 2009.
• Canadian harvest begins
  The Canadian harvest started today in Ontario's Niagara region, the earliest commercial picking there in more than 20 years.