Wine Blogs
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List Last Updated: 15/7/2010
Individual Bloggers and Wine Lovers
Cellar Fella :: Simon Burnton :: @simon_burnton
Clueless About Wine :: Charlie
Confessions of a Wino :: Alastair Bathgate :: @tiptoptaps
Cool, Dark & Humid :: Colin Thorne :: @colinthorne
Golly’s Wine Drops
Grapefan’s Wine Adventures :: Colin Smith
Linda’s Wine Blog :: Linda
Liquid Assets :: Heather Dougherty :: @wineandwords
Madame Vin :: “Madame Vin” :: @madamevin
Miss Bouquet :: Miss Bouquet :: @missbouquet
Oenotype :: David Derbyshire :: @oenotype
The Pinotage Club :: Peter May
Quentin Sadler’s Wine Blog :: Quentin Sadler :: @quentinsadler
Simon’s Wine Blog :: Simon Mort :: @simonmort
Spittoon :: Andrew Barrow :: @wine_scribbler
Steel Wine :: Will Willson :: @steelwine
Supermarket Wine Reviews :: Andy Thomas
Tales of a Sommelier :: Gary Clark
The Tasting Note :: Peter Wood :: @thetastingnote
Thirstforwine’s Posterous :: Robert McIntosh (me) :: @thirstforwine (currently separate, may be integrated with my other sites soon)
White Wine & Red Wine :: Fraser Edwards :: @whiteandred
Wine Being :: Radka Slovackova :: @radka83
WineBottle.org.uk
The Wine Conversation :: Robert McIntosh :: @thirstforwine
Wine, Food & Other Pleasures :: Lucy Bridgers :: @LucyBridgers
WineFriend :: David Way
Wine the Gap :: Chris Bryant :: @TheChrisBryant
Wine London
Wine Maestro :: Brett Jones :: @thewinemaestro
A Wine Merchant’s Life :: Steve Evans :: @snowpatroller
Wine Passionista :: Tara Devon :: @Tara_Devon
Wine Psych :: Miles Thomas
Wine Rambler :: Torsten & Julian :: @winerambler
Wine Rant :: Richard Bray :: @RichardWHBray
The Wine Sleuth :: Denise Medrano :: @thewinesleuth
The Wine Tipster :: Neil Phillips :: @thewinetipster
Wine Travel Guides
Wine Wire :: ?
Wine Woman & Song :: J.M. Darkly :: @winewomansong
Winey Wink :: Wink Lorch :: @winetravel
Woodbine on … :: Louis Anthony Woodbine
Blogging Journalists
Andrew Jefford :: Andrew Jefford
Anthony Rose Wine :: Anthony Rose :: @antrose33
Decanter :: @decantercom
Heather Dougherty’s Wine Blog :: Heather Doughtery
JancisRobinson.com :: Jancis Robinson :: @jancisrobinson
Jim’s Loire :: Jim Budd
Joanna Simon Wine & Food :: Joanna Simon
The Joseph Report :: Robert Joseph :: @robertjoseph
Simon Woods :: Simon Woods :: @woodswine
Wine Anorak Blog :: Jamie Goode :: @jamiegoode
The Wine Detective :: Sarah Ahmed :: @sarahwine
Wine Doctor :: Chris Kissack
Worcester Sauce :: Stuart George
Foodies who talk wine too
FoodWineTravel :: Robert Giorgione :: @robertgiorgione
Food and Wine :: Rob Wade
Intoxicating Prose :: Douglas Blyde :: @foodguardian
ITs Food
Restaurants and Wine Bars
Artisan & Vine :: @artisanandvine
Vinoteca :: @vinoteca
Trade: Merchants, Importers, Agents, Retailers & Competitions
Aldi UK (not updated recently)
Armit Wines :: Armit_Wines
ASDA – Aisle Spy
Association of Small Direct Wine Merchants (ASDW)
Barrels and Bottles
Berry Bros. & Rudd :: @winematters
Bibendum :: @bibendumwine
Bordeaux Undiscovered
Cantina Caputo
Exquisite Wine
Hennings Wine :: Hennings Wine
International Wine Challenge (IWC) :: Ray O’Connor
Italyabroad.com – Italian wine blog :: Andrea
Leon Stolarski
Majestic :: @majesticwine
Society Grapevine :: The Wine Society :: @thewinesociety
Surf4Wine :: Andrew Chapman
Thirst for Rioja :: @thirstforrioja
Wine for Spice :: Warren Edwardes
Wine Wire
Directories, Offers & Aggregators
FeedReel (Directory, including a “latest posts” service)
Love that wine (Social Network)
Supermarket Wine Reviews (mainly aggregating notes, but includes blog articles)
UKWinesOnline (Offers)
UK Blogs Abroad (Expats)
Michael’s Wine Diary :: Michael Edwards
My Vineyard Blog :: Richard Mayson
New Bordeaux :: Jane Anson :: @newbordeaux
Rebecca Gibb :: Rebecca Gibb :: @rebeccagibb
Taste Languedoc :: Rosemary George
Wine Life News :: Oliver Styles :: @oliverstyles
Happy Reading!
I first published this information in a post (“List of UK Wine Blogs”) in 2008, but it constantly needs updating.
Of course the list could be much more comprehensive, covering a broader range of wine sites. To be honest, that is better left to someone better technically qualified as the list would be long (if you want that, go to AbleGrape.com as I’m sure you’ll find the information you are looking for).
For the purposes of this list, I have chosen to concentrate on those sites that:
- are written in the UK (whether they are about this market or not, or even written in English!)
- provide Opinion, Commentary and/or Tasting Notes. I am not including news sites like Harpers.co.uk because of this, but I have included Decanter as they have a separate blog area, and included JancisRobinson.com as it achieves many of the same objectives even if 50% or more is subscriber only
I have also tried a very basic categorisation. These categories are not strict or mutually exclusive, but they do try to separate the blogs by the type of writing you can expect when following them.
I’m sure to have missed a few (yes, bloggers ought to do a better job of research, but I can update this list with your input, so effectively this IS my market research).
Hopefully this list will be useful to some other than just sp*mmers.
September 21st, 2009 at 8:57 pm
also on Twitter: http://twitter.com/winerambler
Thanks for putting this list together!
November 16th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
[...] is a generation of wine lovers who are using the power of social media, through blogs, twitter, facebook, youtube, etc. to communicate their love of wine and their personal take on it. [...]
January 5th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Try Louis Anthony Woodbine. He has a rather novel take on describing wines (address in the website space) as he talks about it like a love affair. Good fun, light hearted but with a bit of fact in these wine tasting notes.
February 1st, 2010 at 2:17 pm
done – no problem!
February 1st, 2010 at 2:17 pm
thanks for this one! now added
February 1st, 2010 at 2:57 pm
I like your site. Mine is winepsych.com which has focus on psychology and wine. I have reference section with journal papers etc. which people might find useful. I try to update my blog a couple of times a week.
cheers
Miles
May 25th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
It's the UK Wine MASSIVE, thanks Robert!
http://www.winewomansong.com
June 1st, 2010 at 11:43 am
Hi Robert.
Can you please add my blog, The Grapes of Sloth, which can be found at http://www.pauljkiernan.wordpress.com ? Muchos gracias!
Paul.
June 2nd, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Here's another one: http://winefriend.wordpress.com
It covers a lot of general wine themes but has a particular interest in Italy, with web pages on some key regions, some well known, others not.
July 1st, 2010 at 4:01 pm
YOU should check out http://winebeing.com
July 13th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Feel free to add my blog http://www.cantinacaputo.com to your list. It has only just been planted so it is a little bare in terms of content. I have high hopes for it though.
Grazie
Paul Caputo
July 15th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Good list
I blog on arrtisan and natural wines mostly with an emphasis lately on the Etna area in Sicily, Ribeira Sacra in Spain and Arbois in France.
Please feel free to add my blog to the list if you'd like…I'd be honored. http://arnoldwaldstein.com/wine
July 16th, 2010 at 9:50 am
thanks Arnold. Great subjects and good blog. Unfortunately this list is dedicated to UK wine blogs (in a fairly general sense). Is there a UK connection with your blog?
July 16th, 2010 at 9:53 am
done! good luck
July 16th, 2010 at 10:01 am
sorry it took me a while, but now included – thanks!
July 16th, 2010 at 10:04 am
mean t to reply to say that this is now added – very interesting angle on the subject
July 16th, 2010 at 11:39 am
Hmmm…Not certain what the “UK” in a “UK wine blog means”. Folks in the UK drink a lot of wines from the regions I'm interested in (aka, they read my blog and buy these wines).
I'm in NYC. Drink and travel and blog on wines mostly European with an emphasis on natural and artisanal.
Whatever works for you is fine and I'm glad I found your site….I like it quite a bit. But the idea of location, yes terroir, is about the wine not those of us who love it, blog on it and share it
July 16th, 2010 at 11:54 am
Well, as it states above,
“For the purposes of this list, I have chosen to concentrate on those sites that:
are written in the UK (whether they are about this market or not, or even written in English!)”
… but I did extend it to include British writers who are resident abroad and writing for a UK audience.
There are already many lists of wine blogs in general, and the US dominates them, so this is an attempt to filter out just the UK ones to give them a little profile, and make this list distinctive.
You might have been a UK expat in the US, hence the question
Do make sure you've got yourself listed on http://wineblogger.info though!
July 16th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Paul…no problem and please, no offense meant.
Enjoy and I'll keep reading your blogs even though as an American…I can't be a member of your club
T
July 21st, 2010 at 12:32 am
Cuture and Wine are intrinsically inter-twined. My background in applied linguistics and being an Asian led me to my own wine blog called http://www.cultureandwine.blogspot.com/ It discusses wine language, how we use wine descriptors and sociolinguistics contexts etc. Join me there with your views.