The Wine Wizard of Oz
Oz Clarke, an admirable combination of impeccable authority and charming persona, is the creator of an exhaustive wine course on CD-ROM. Oz Clarke's Wine Guide, US$29.95 at www.bn.com, includes 54 wine-tasting videos, 1,200 food and wine matches, 30,000 vintage recommendations, 3,000 encyclopedic entries, maps, vineyard visits and Clarke himself, an Oxford-educated British critic whose seductive pronunciation of tongue-twisting varietals is music to the ears.
Wine News Online
For both archival and new wine news, two free sources are magazine sites: www.winexwired.com, for all issues of the Wine X magazine, and www.winespectator.com, as comprehensive as Wine Spectator magazine itself.
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