Useful Links

If you have any suggestions as to any worthy wine-related websites that you would like to see included here - please E-mail us.

Jancis Robinson.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 (plus a database of around 60,000 tasting notes)

eRobertParker.com - one of the worlds most influential wine critics - an independent consumers guide to fine wines.

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!

northeastofengland.com - this extensive regional portal database covers the five counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham, Cleveland and Cumbria

Oddbins.com - one of the best independent high street chains - helpful and knowledgeable staff. Local shop in Gosforth & Newcastle City centre.

Majestic Online - top by the case wine warehouse - local shop - bottom of Hadricks Mill Rd, below Freeman Hospital. 

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!

Richard Granger Wines - local independent wine merchant - personal service & a great range of new world and old world wines. Located adjacent to West Jesmond metro station.

Tyne Wines - a local specialist for small independent producers French wines from Champagne, the Loire, Beaujolais and the Rhône Valley - based in Newcastle upon Tyne.  

champagnes.com - official website for the Champagne wine industry. Masses of information, fantastic photo gallery - if only all wine regions had websites like this !

www.discovertheorigin.co.uk  - Discover the Origin is a campaign promoting five key European products: Burgundy wines, Port and Douro Valley Wines, Parma Ham and Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese - supported by the European Union.

Bordeaux Wines.com - the official site for the worlds most famous wine region. Packed with tips about the wines, and visits to the vineyards. The site also has its own Wine School where you can learn more about the wines of Bordeaux. NWS is a Partner School and we run regular Bordeaux Tastings hosted by a Bordeaux Accredited Tutor.
 

The Gourmet Society - Enjoy 2 meals for the price of 1 at hundreds of Newcastle restaurants with the Gourmet Society Dining Card. Membership normally £53.50 per year, but click on link above and join for just £39.95 with 2 months extra - free. 

• Spectrum and Vanquish: Kurniawan wines are not in sale
  Auctioneers Spectrum and wine merchant Vanquish have taken the unprecedented step of categorically denying that the consigner in tomorrow's London sale is Rudy Kurniawan.
• English vineyard set for first 'terroir' designation
  Camel Valley Vineyards in Cornwall has submitted the UK's first single grower application for Protected Designation of Origin status.
• Bomb squad destroys WWII wine cache
  A cache of pre-World War II wine found in a suburban garden was destroyed by the British army bomb squad, a reader recounts in this month's issue of Decanter magazine.
• Naples charity auction brings in $12.2m
  The Naples Winter Wine Festival charity auction brought in US$12.2m on the weekend of 29 January, bringing the event’s total earnings to US$106.7m during its 12-year life.
• Government alcohol ad 'scaremongering'
  New UK government guidelines warning that drinking two large glasses of wine a day triples the risk of mouth cancer are 'scaremongering’' an influential alcohol lobby group claims.
• Tertre Daugay renamed Chateau Quintus
  Chateau Tertre Daugay has been renamed Chateau Quintus, Domaine Clarence Dillon, owner of Chateau Haut-Brion and La Mission Haut-Brion, has announced.
• Chicago and Wharton in Bordeaux Cup final
  University of 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.