• Wine Cellar Creations. Toronto area supplier of custom wine cellars, wine cooling systems, and racking. Very nice photo gallery of some of their finished products. Wine Cellar Creations.

• WineCommune.com. This is a forum for merchants and wine collectors to buy and sell wine. Bidders are insured up to $300 U.S. WineCommune.com

• Tasmanian Wine Centre. Info on Tasmanian wine regions, vineyards. Buy fine Australian wines online. They ship worldwide. Tasmanian Wine Centre

• NYWineCork promotes and sells wines from the Vineyards of New York State. NYWineCork.com

• Winequest.com. Napa site for Tim Hanni, master of wine. Get details on his revolutionary method of wine and food pairing, which is endorsed by Wine Dining. Winequest.com

• Winostuff.com. A fun site with lots of humor, wine and restaurant reviews, news and articles. Winostuff.com

• eVineyard.com. Put the inventory of your wine cellar online, buy wines and accessories online. Wine reviews, wine clubs. eVineyard

• Cyberbacchus.com. Huge selection of wine links. Wine quiz, electronic wine postcards, subscribe to their free newsletter. Cyberbacchus.com

• VinXchange.com. Large online wine industry directory. Wine insiders can add their own listing for products and services. vinXchange.com

• DeVine Consultants. Site geared for small scale producers, including home growers and winemakers. Classes, custom home vineyards and small lot production. Owner is a Canadian now living in USA. DeVine Consultants

• Bordeaux Central. A Top-50 wine site in Alexa's international rankings and the first international wine links source, wine shops directory and wine tasting forum that brings wine enthusiasts, experts and amateurs together. Bordeaux Central

• Travel Envoy. Excellent site for Australian and New Zealand travel, with a link to their winery index. Pairing wine and cheese, tasting notes, world winery directory with surprisingly good information on Canadian wineries. Great all round site. Travel Envoy

• French Wines. Very detailed site on the wines of France. Good map showing the different wine regions. Details for each region, wine links page. French Wines

• Little Fat Wino. Great Canadian site that covers home winemaking, local grape growing, food and wine events and festivals, with an emphasis on Eastern Ontario. Little Fat Wino

• Wine and Leisure dot com. A wine directory that is always on the hunt for qaulity wine websites. Editor's pick of best wine sites, recipe search, world vintage chart, wine course and glossary. Wine and Leisure

• Harvest Watch 2000. The only wine webcam site I have found on the web. Live view of the harvest at wineries in California and Europe. Report on the 2000 harvest in California and overseas.Harvest Watch 2000

• Wines Across America. Click on the map of the U.S. to get links to wineries in all 50 states. Be sure to check out Hawaii!!! Wines Across America

• Wine Search Online. Wine regions, wine producers, wine and health, reference sites, wine courses. Winesearch

• Les Kincaid's Lifestyles. Las Vegas site. Great articles and links for food, wine, golf. Les Kincaid

• Wines, beers and spirits of the Net. The motherload of wine links, from Toronto's Ryerson Journalism Professor Dean Tudor Wines, beers and spirits of the Net.

• Wine Business. Wine industry news & headlines, wine jobs, winery search, bulletin board, calendar, wine company stocks, wine industry directory. Wine Business

• Australian Wines of Distinction. Australia's wine region, diary and special events. Australia

• Wine of the Week. Lovely New Zealand site. Wine news, wine & restaurant reviews, New Zealand wines, many wine links Wine of the Week

• Vino Search. German site. Internet addresses of wineries worldwide. Many very good links. Vinosearch.com

• The Links.com. Wine links page for wine clubs, wineries, wine tours, as well as The Links.com general subject world links pages. The Links.com

• WebiWine. Great Canadian Wine Information. WebiWine.

• Robin Garr's Wine Lover's Page. One of the best personal wine sites on the web. Good basic info on learning about wine, wine discussion group, wine quotes, links and reviews. Robin Garr

• Table wine. Reviews and recommendations for affordable wines. Table

• Lake Erie Quality Wines Alliance. Wineries in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York. Calendar of events. Lake Erie

• World Wine List. One of the most extensive world wine links sites. World Wine List

• Jancis Robinson's Wine Course. The First Lady of wine. Wine and food charts, wine vintage guide by region, information on her wine video series. Jancis Robinson

• Vine2Wine. Many very good commercial and personal wine page links worldwide. Vine2Wine

• Into Wine. Online wine course, wine in the bible, how wine is made, wine and health. Into Wine

• Steve O's California Wine Page. Excellent personal page reviewing Sonoma and Napa wineries, tour recommendations. Steve Os

• Strat's Place. Fantastic site. Wine, gardening, the arts. Free online newsletter, wine labels, wine links, wine newsgroup, wine trivia. Be a guest wine columnist. Strats Place

• My Wine List. A free online wine tracking system with wine info and products. My Wine List

• 4TravelInfo.Com Worldwide travel directory with links to tourist information, airline, cruises, car rentals, tours, hotels, and other accommodation. 4TravelInfo.Com

  Proudly Canadian

• Fruit Wines of Ontario. Site dedicated to the non-profit association promoting the approximately 20 Ontario fruit wineries. Roughly equivalent to a VQA for fruit wines. Fruit Wines of Ontario.

• Rosehill Wine Cellars. Distributors of wine racking systems and wine cooling units, and designers/builders of custom wine cellars. Based in Toronto, but will ship anywhere in North America. My wife bought me a 500 bottle wine cooling cabinet from Rosehill and I was very impressed with their service. (Yes the cabinet is already full -:) Rosehill Cellars

• Wine Access Magazine. Published 9 times a year, reviews of Canadian and international wines. Check out their website for weekly news. Wine Access

• Vines Magazine. Another Canadian wine magazine, published 6 times a year. Vines

• Winetidings Magazine. No website yet, but you can email them at winetidings@netcom.ca Published eight times a year.

• Canadian Wine Home Page. Lots of good B.C. wine links. Canadian Wine

• British Columbia Wines. Official site with links to B.C. wineries that are online. My favorite is Calona Winery. B.C. Wines

• Opimian Home Page. The Wine Society of Canada. Wines not available locally. Tours, tastings, dinners. Opimian

• Vintages. Liquor Control Board of Ontario's Vintage Wine Selection. Vintages Ontario

  World Wine News

• Wine Spectator. Here you will get news flashes from the world of wine without having to wait for the next issue of their magazine to arrive on newstands. Wine Spectator

• New York Times Wine info. Formerly Wine Today, quite Extensive. Includes Harvest Watch 2000 site. New York Times

• Local Wine Events.com. Search for wine events in your area or as an industry insider add your event to this site. Local Wine Events

• Wine on the Web. UK site with extensive wine news updated often. Wine on the Web

• Wine Update. Stories from other wine news sources, sites of the day, archives. Wineupdate.com

• Vintners.com. Wine, beer, spirits news, competitions, trade shows, associations. Vintners.com

  Home Winemaking

• Jack Keller's Home Winemaking Page. Award winning site. Texas wine region. Great resource page for home winemakers. Just about everything you need to know to make great homemade wines from edible fruit, vegetables, grains, flowers, leaves, roots, and bark. Home Winemaking

• Wine Art home winemaking kits.Wine Art Home Page

• Spagnols Home winemaking kits. Spagnols Home Wine Kits

  Wine Newsgroups

• For serious wine lovers alt food wine

• Help for home winemakers Home winemaking

• Niagara Wines and Wineries of Ontario and Upper New York State. Niagara.wine

  Restaurants, Food, Recipes

• Coastal Living Magazine. I put this link in because it is my wife's favorite travel/decorating/food magazine. Good recipes for treasures from the sea. Coastal Living Magazine

• Food Network Canada. The Canadian version of the US Food Network. Cooking and travel shows produced in Canada. Food Network Canada

• Fazio's Restuarant, Oshawa Ontario Canada. Durham region's best Italian restaurant. Check the virtual tour of his extensive Wine Cellar. Fazio's

• The Food Network. American TV network with some great cooking and wine shows.Food Network

• Epicurious. Excellent food and travel site. Worldwide reviews, links to many magazine articles, by themes such as garden tours, romantic tours. Restaurant reviews. Epicurious

• TBS - Dinner & a Movie. From the TV show. Fun site with recipes, movie reviews. Dinner & a Movie.

  International Wineries

• Georgetown Vineyards. Overlooks historic Cambridge, a small town in southeastern Ohio. Famous for its wine and olive oil. Georgetown Vineyards

• Greek Wines. Wine regions, wine route, health and wine. Greece

• Central Otago Wine Cellar. New Zealand's newest wine region. Otago New Zealand

• Mike L's Guide to Wines of Washington State. Just the thing to go with Pacific Rim Cuisine. Washington

• Vinonet. Site featuring Germany's top estate wineries and lots of good wine information.Vinonet

• Avignonesi Wines of Montepulciano, Italy. Makers of wine, spirits, olive oil. The oldest wine cellars in Italy. Food and wine courses. Make sure to check out their photo gallery. Beautiful site, in Italian or English. Avignonesi Italy

• British and Northern European Wineries. Making wine in cold climate. British Wineries

• Croatia & Wine. Wine region, facts, labels, Croatian wine makers. Site in English. Croatia

• Washington Wine Commission Website. Wineries, events, trip planner, resources, news. Washington

  Wine Travel

• Ottawa Hotels. Real time secure hotel booking site. Links to all the top Ottawa hotels, car rentals and attractions. Ottawa Hotels.com

• Ontario Wine Route. Wine Council of Ontario Official website for Ontario wineries. Look in this site for inks to most Ontario wineries. Or call their toll-free number 1-800-263-2988. Calendar of events. Download a wine route map. Wine Route

• Niagara Wine Country travel. Similar to the Ontario wine route page, but includes accomodations.Wineward

• Niagara on the Lake. Tourism page for the town, accomodations, events, local wineries. Bring your VISA card.Niagara on the Lake

• Steve Bauer's escorted bike tours of the Niagara wine route. Includes winery tours and tastings. Just remember to sip and spit, not swallow. Bike tours

• Niagara on the Net. Dining out, accomodations, gift shopss, activities, wineries, forum. Niagara Net

• Shaw Festival. Official site for Niagara-on-the-Lake's Shaw Festival theatre. Operates seasonally. Shaw

• Ontario travel planner. Official Ontario government travel site. Or call 1-800-Ontario, Tourism Toronto is 1-800-363-1990. Attractions, events, Ontario facts. Contact them for free Ontario travel brochures, maps. Ontario Travel

• Canadian Government Travel information and advisory. Official site. Many links. Canada

• Tourism offices worldwide. How to send for travel information and maps. World travel links

• Motels Ontario. Online features listing for motels and Inns. Motels

• Worldwide Bed and Breakfast links. Over 20,000 listings of inns and B & B's in North America B & B

• Resorts Ontario. When only the very best will do. Send a free virtual postcard from Ontario. Ontario Resorts

• Ontario Wine Country Tours. Specializing in corporate retreats to Ontario's wine region. Corporate Tours

• Wine and Dine Tours. Custom Napa Valley and Italy wine tours. Napa Valley

• France in Your Glass. Love the name. Custom wine tours of France and Italy. Ever considered a honeymoon in the wine regions of France? France

  Celebrity Wineries

• Actor Sam Neill owns Two Paddocks, a winery in the Gibbston Valley, Otago New Zealand. Sam Neill

• Sir Cliff Richard owns a vineyard in Portugal. Wine is made from his grapes at Cortes de Cima Vineyards and Winery. Sir Cliff Richard

• Greg Norman Estates. Australian winery owned by the golf great. Greg Norman

• Creston Vineyards Winery in California. Owned by Alex Trebek. Alex Trebek

• Chateau de Tigne Vineyard. In Anjou Region of France. Owned by actor Gerard Depardieu. Gerard Depardieu

• Fess Parker Winery. In Los Olives, California. Beautiful winery, restaurant, Inn & Spa. Owned and operated by the Fess Parker family. Fess Parker

• Remick Ridge Vineyards. In Somoma Valley, California. Owned by Tom & Dick Smothers. Smothers Brothers

• Niebaum-Coppola Estate Winery. California winery owned by Francis Ford Coppola. Movie memorabilia museum on-site.Francis Coppola

• Celebrity Cellars. Wine sold mass-market in the U.S. with the likeness of famous people (alive and dead) on the labels. Celebrity wines

  Wine History

• Wine in the Bible. Website devoted to promoting a new book, but 5 out of 9 chapters can be read online. Online wine book

• The Origins and Ancient History of Wine. Wine in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, ancient and modern wine maps. Ancient History

• Argentinean wine history. Right back to the beginning. Argentina

• The history of wine in South Africa. South Africa

  Wine Courses

• Brock University. Deep in the Heart of Ontario Wine Country. Canada's first degree program in the art of winemaking. Cool Climate and Oenology Viticulture Institute. Brock U

• Niagara College. Two year diploma course to become a Winery and Viticulture Technician. This college in Niagara Ontario's wine region has planted its own vineyards. Classroom study is combined with working in a local winery. Niagara College.

• Loyalist College, Belleville. Three year Wine Technology course. Wine Technology

• U.C. Davis, California. Dept. of Viticulture and Enology. Wine research, wine books, wine courses, wine law, many wine links. UC Davis

• West Coast Wine Education. Basic to advanced wine education available for both public and private groups. Also personal consultations on wine list creation, staff training personal cellar selections and event management.West Coast Wine Education

  Wine Books

• Vino Veritas by Alex Eberspaecher. Canadian wine writer and former policeman shares humorous stories from his travels as a wine writer. Vino Veritas

• A Short History of Wine, by Rod Phillips a history professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. The book brings to life ancient and modern winemaking in entertaining stories. In 2000 the National Capital Sommelier Guild named Mr. Phillips their Wine Person of the Year.

• Mitchell Beazley's World of Wine. U.K. book publisher of wine guides. Hugh Johnson books, wine links. Wine Books

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