Wine Resources
Need information about wine? You've come to the right place. Find out all about wines, the regions they come from, the vintages they're made in, the grapes they're made from, and the people they're made by.
This section is under construction, but here is the information we'll be posting soon.
Regions
Take a tour of some of the best wine regions in the world. From America to Australia, the south of France to South Africa, we cover it all.
Vintages
One of the most important factors in making a great wine is quality of the vintage. We'll take you through the highs and lows of the last two centuries, and even touch briefly on the last couple of decades of the 18th Century.
Wineries
We'll probably never cover all the wineries we'd like to in the detail you demand, but we'll certainly do our best. This ever-expanding section will highlight some classic producers as well as some rising stars.
Wines
A collection of tasting notes on a variety of wines.
FAQs
Send us your questions, and we'll try to answer them. We've posted some of the most common ones here. Want to know when to decant wine, what temperature to serve it at, how to "taste" wine, or how Champagne is made? This is the place to find out.
A Dominus Vertical
We tasted our way through a number of Dominus vintages (don't you feel sorry for us?) and have the results here. If you want an executive summary of the article, one word will do: Wow!! Read more...
Quick Fact
What's the smallest appellation in France?
Most people will say it's Romanée-Conti, the fabled (and miniscule) vineyard owned by the Domaine de la Romaneé-Conti. But although this grand cru vineyard is a tiny 1.8 hectares, it is almost twice the surface area of the smallest.
The smallest appellation is Romanée-Conti's tiny neighbor La Romanée.
Owned by the Chateau de Vosne-Romanée, this tiny parcel of wine is France's smallest appellation. Each year, around 4000 bottles of this wine is produced, and it is bottled by Bouchard Père et Fils.
Although the wine is not the equal of Romanée-Conti or the finest Richebourg, it is nevertheless a great wine: elegant, stylish, beautifully perfumed, and very age-worthy. Don't believe anyone who tells you that this grand cru isn't up to par.