recent major updates:

• October news: Yquem's skin cream, win a trip to new Zealand
  
• roundup: hot tips from the weekend newspaper columnists
  
• wine of the week: Trentham Estate, La Famiglia Nebbiolo 2005
  
• Cloof Wines: a package of quality and quirkiness from South Africa
  
• win £1,000 of crystal wine glasses from Riedel, plus 10% off for all!
  
• the BYO list updated - community-built guide to BYO restaurants
  
• Moldova's wine industry bounces back from troubled times
  
• market report: how fine wine investments fared in August
  
• Tom Cannavan honoured in the International Wine Writer Awards
  
• poll: how do you react to 'BOGOF' 2-for-1 wine offers?
  
• The Wine Gang is launched: a unique new online publication
  
• Champagne Louis Barthélémy and Château Val Joanis
  
• restaurants: top marks for The Seafood Restaurant, St Andrews
  
• Tom Stevenson on Riesling and petrol: part II published
  
• wine-pages' diary of tastings and wine events updated
  
• Tom Cannavan picks his wines of the month from August 2008
  
• Tom Cannavan tastes the wines of Castello di Querceto
  
• meet the winemakers: Jeff and Amy Burch of Howard Park
  
• restaurants: Vivienne Franks dines in London's L'Anima
  
• Tom Stevenson on discrepancies in wine competition results
  
• catching up with the wines of Lowe Family Vineyards, Mudgee
  
• Markus Molitor, one of the most idiosyncratic estates of the Mosel
  
• Tom Cannavan visits The Lake of Menteith hotel
  
• Five years of Tom Stevenson's Alsace and Champagne reports - free
  
• Matching wines to... music? The Montes Alpha experiment
  
• book of the month for August is Tokaj, by David Copp
  
• Vinho Verde, Portugal's best known, but least fashionable wine
  
• wine maketh the whisky: Glenguin and Glengoyne get together
  
• Tom Cannavan travels to the cork forests of Portugal
  
• Tom Cannavan tastes the portfolio of Champagne Bollinger
  
• Tom Cannavan meets Willi Opitz, Austrian maverick and maestro
  
• terrific selection from Cadman Fine Wines, plus £30 discount offer
  
• Tom Cannavan considers - and tastes - a global phenomenon
  
• tasting the wines of Reschke Estate, Coonawarra, Australia
  
• a profile of Rozès Port and Douro wines. Part II now added
  
• Britain's biggest and best BYOB restaurant directory updated
  
• Natasha Hughes attends a wine matching class on Japanese food
  
• once in a lifetime: 50 vintages of La Mission Haut-Brion tasted