www.classicwines.com

A few months ago our editor was away skiing and met some people who ran a wine shop in Cheshire. After a week of listening about different wines, the best food to eat them with and how to store them he decided to get a few bottles in France on the way back. Now, let’s be honest, discussions in a bar late at night mean that you forget a few things so when he got home he tried one of the newly purchased bottles. Needless to say it was complete rubbish and went straight down the drain.

Since then we have wanted to find a really simple web site that will tell him all about wine, unfortunately Classic Wines is not it – it’s more of a sales site than an information site and it took so long to find things we gave up. It does have some nice reviews and the ability to search by value, region etc but what we really wanted was some good advice not a sales pitch.

If you have any site suggestions for him please make a comment below. We’re going to rate this site one star only – the reason – even if you find the wine you want it does not tell you how to buy it in the UK.

Sorry Classic Wines – make the site more world orientated and we’d love to give it a better review.