Food & Beverage

If you’re passionate about collecting wine then you’ll want to know that you are storing your valuable wine collection in the best possible cellar conditions. Conditions that will allow your wines to age slowly and develop complexity …

The new e-book How To Build Your Own Wine Cellar reveals all the strategies you need to start your own cellar. This book grew out of our own research into building several wine cellars plus it answers all the questions we were asked by other people when they knew we were writing this book.

Not only will you discover how to build your own wine cellar, you’ll learn about choosing wine cellar racks, how to select wines to cellar, the role of humidity and temperature in wine storage, choosing wine glasses, how to taste wine and much more.

Vinodiversity is a website devoted to getting winelovers to try something different. There are hundreds of different wine varieties being used but most winelovers restrict themselves to just a few. Darby’s Vinodiversity site gives you plenty of information about innovative wines and winemakers from Australian wine regions.

In investment banking circles, the term “rabbi” is often used to refer to an experienced colleague that has your best interests in mind.  This is the essence of Wine Rabbi’s mission — there’s an absurdly overwhelming amount of information available about wine, and Wine Rabbi is here to filter it all down to what you really need to know, saving you time and money.  In other words, the folks at Wine Rabbi do their homework so that you winos don’t have to, which is why they maintain that every wino needs a rabbi!

Wine Rabbi’s weekly posting schedule includes wine reviews and winery reviews, and information about selected wine-related events, and readers can also access intuitively organized archives and other recommended resources.

Classic Wines is a unique sitethat provides original content and an extensive wine database. You can browse around to learn more about specific wines, comment on interestingbottles, and get connected to retailers who carry it. While there, you can visit the comprehensive “Articles” section, powered by a team of over 10 qualified wine writers. Article topics range from serious news to casual commentary. Also be sure to check out the original video series Classic Wines TV, hosted by sommelier Brian Freedman. Brian is a well known wine personality in the Philadelphia area and brings his humor, knowledge, and experience to the internet. Follow Brian as he does tastings, comparisons, vineyard tours, and interviews. As part of the Web2.0 movement, Classic Wines offers users the ability todiscuss and comment on everything on the site, whether it be bottles, articles, or videos.

The Wining Pro is a site dedicated to wine (with a touch of golf thrown in for good measure). You can find an extensive tasting note archive here, plus wine articles from my column in Australian Golf Digest over the last four and a bit years. There’s also quite a bit of wine comment at Prospective on the site, so drop by for a read if that sounds interesting.