Wine Programme!
The guest on this programme was Barbara Boyle, a free-lance wine writer.
Wine Programme!
The guest on this programme was Barbara Boyle, a free-lance wine writer.
*In Ireland we now drink, on
average, ten litres of wine per year. The U.K drinks fifteen litres
per head and in mainland European countries such as Italy and France
the figure is around fifty or sixty litres per person per year.
*There are several different types of wine websites on the Internet.
They include:business to business, e-zines, wine regions, wine travel
sites, auctions, brokers and wine search
engines.
*No single website dominates
the sale of wine online in the way that amazon.com seem to dominate
the sale of books. However, one of the bigger U.S. websites
is
The following websites are Australian:
In the case of wine Barbara predicts that local sites will be very important.
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http://www.bbr.co.uk http://www.slainteonline.com |
International regions also have their own wine websites.
Popular wine e-zines include:
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http://www.winetoday.com |
Dedicated wine search engines are useful for finding good wine websites:
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http://www.winesearcher.com http://www.vinosearch.com Barbara also recommends the general search engine: http://www.google.com |
This site organises online winetastings:
Write to the programme at intothenet@ireland.com
