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Below are some links to websites that may have information of interest to you.

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Buying Wine Online

If you have reservations about buying wine online please see my advice page

Wine Makers Choice
This Sydney based online wine shop has a great range of Australian wines, and a few imported. The have a number of wine plan options and you can buy mixed dozens. They run regular email specials, you just need to register for a free weekly email. They also have a gift service for New Zealand, the UK, and USA.

Rewine
Rewine is a Melbourne-based company providing wine in environmentally friendly refillable bottles, and bulk refills (available in 4.5 litre packs) An interesting range of wines is provided, including some organic wines.

Buy Wine Online
Find and Buy Wine Online from French Wine online which is a Californian-based online retailer of fine import wines and brings you wine vintages from select regions of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and New Zealand.

Wine newsletters

Cork Jester (aka Jennifer 'Chotzi' Rosen)
Author, comic, linguist, bellydancer and bloody good writer. Her articles are super informative and entertaining at the same time.

Nat Decants is great newsletter produced by award winning Canadian writer Natalie Maclean. Subscription is free. There is a great website as well with back issues, wine articles, humour, tasting notes and other wine information.

Wine Forums

Forums are a great way to learn about wine. You can usually browse and thus get an idea about what sort of topics are of interest. You probably need to register to post a reply to an existing topic or start a new one of your own, but this is fairly simple process.

Boozemonkey
BoozeMonkey makes it easy to "discover" a new wine and to interact directly with the winemaker who created it..

Must Love Wine Social Network
This is a new and rapidly growing group which aims to bring together an "eclectic foray of wine lovers and enthusiasts." Join in the forum, make new friends in your area or on the other side of the world.

Auswine Forum
Perhaps the most active and informative online wine forum about at the moment is the Auswine Forum moderated by Gavin Trott of the Adelaide based Australian Wine Centre. Membership of the forum is free and you can participate in sensible discussions about all aspects of Australian Wines. If you have a question about any obscure aspect of wine there is sure to be someone on this forum who knows the answer.

Lets Talk Wine
This is a UK based forum which occasionally fires up on topic of interest. You can always start your own topic to get a discussion rolling.

Learning about Wine

Wine Tasting Courses London
Wine tasting courses given by Bordeaux university qualified wine maker and wine taster held in London for beginners and wine trade professionals.

Wine Books

In Australia a safe and convenient place to buy books online is QBD. You will find a great range of wine and food related titles. Freight is very reasonable, especially if you buy more than one book at a time. The prices for most books are discounted from the price you would pay in a bookshop, so even though you pay extra for freight you can still save money.

Wine and food

The Hamper Club
The Hamperclub Gourmet Foods provide quality corporate, personal, and baby gift hampers. We strive for excellence in presentation and offer value for money gifts.

Great food made easy is a good site to get some recipes for food to go with your wine. It is written by my friend John Bennett who now lives in Spain. A useful feature of the site is its glossary of cooking terms, so even beginners know how to get the most out of their cooking.

Some Web Resources

Verymuchgrape Wine Database is an Australian Database of wine information. It enables searches by region, vineyard name and wine type.