The company for which I work because I believe it offers a relaxed and sociable and unthreatening place to learn about wine. WES provides courses for various levels of knowledge, tastings and wine holidays led by its expert staff.

A really excellent Site by wine Writer Jamie Goode. It has reviews and articles as well as a blog of vinous interest.

Chris Kissack's medically oriented wine site. Useful travels and reviews of various wine matters here, it is nicely idiosyncratic.

The dreaded Parker! He is arguably the most powerful man operating in the world of fine wine today. Fat Bob's recommendations are instantly acted upon by thousands of Americans and many producers have got into the Parker bed, as it were, by making wine they hope he will rave about. Like any wine writer he has a style of wine he really likes, and you should bear this in mind when following his ideas. Gluck, Jane MacQuitty, Oz Clark and even the sainted Jancis Robinson have their likes and dislikes and should be treated with care until you know which one is in tune with your taste-buds.

Parker has made some changes to the Advocate recently, greatly strengthening the writers with David Schildnecht, Antonio Galloni and Briton Neal Martin likely to improve and enlarge coverage.

Jancis Robinson is undoubtedly the UK's (if not the world's) leading wine writer as far as I am concerned. She has a superb palate - the first wine writing MW after all, and an enviable range of publications to her name. It was one of her books, Masterglass, which got me into the wine trade in the first place. JR writes with wit, passion, enormous knowledge and great skill. Unlike some others, her words never get in the way of the wine, and her superb scholarship is never presented in a dry manner. How unlike the old WSET text books!

Brilliant site for tracing the whereabouts of fine wines and comparing prices. Always worth checking the price and availability with the merchant first though. Mistakes do rarely occur. Well worth the money for the pro upgrade if you are serious about finding wine.

Superplonk is a deal driven site with up to date news of offers from the high street merchants. It's overtly commercial though and you should be aware of the Tesco connections and not be thesaurus averse. Malcolm appears to have no bitterness receptors and loves heavily tannic wines.

Top UK site with a very useful round-up of the week's reviews from the weekend's papers and some excellent contributors. Tom Stevenson springs to mind. Mr Cannavan himself works hard tasting and updating his site and hosts the UK Wine Forum, which is home page on my browser and thus taken for granted. Because it is the senior UK wine site, it attracts some very good deals, and, although self supporting, gives an impression of being non-commercial.