Ever find yourself trying to figure out what wine goes with what meat, or where in the world to get a good wine? If so, you need to bookmark “Classic Wines News“. This is a site known as Classic Wines that is there to help you find your way to the perfect selection of wines. You can buy wines online here using their site, and you will also get up to date wine price comparisons from various Internet wine stores and wineries. You will also have the opportunity to view different wine reviews, wine articles, wine pairings, and meet other wine officianados like yourself. Not ONLY that but you can search for specific wines by type, region (of the WORLD that is), price, food pairing, or really, anything, and Classic Wines offers all of these wine resources to you for absolutely no cost. Recent articles cover the anything and everything to wines and include: French Wines on a Budget, You Can Take it With You, Fragrant White Wines, Fraudulent Bottles, Spa Day and Chardonnay, The Perfect Warm-Weather Wine, and The Truth about Foi Gras.
I would like to say this site was easy to navigate, but truthfully, it is very busy. While this lends to the comprehensiveness of the information they provide, it does make it difficult to navigate unless you have tipped your glass here more than a few times. There are several navigation bars and it took me more than a few minutes to figure them out. On the home page, you will find running down the center some very useful menus such as Wine of the Week, Region of the Week, Recent Reviews, and Recent Wine Articles. The FIRST left sided navigation bar includes a menu where you can click on Wines by the Region. Here you can go anywhere in the world to see what wines are being offered, and where. Yes, ANYWHERE in the world. Love that menu. In this same navigation bar you will find specific Wine Columns divided into categories: Wine Investing, Wine Trends, Wine Lifestyle, and Food and Wine.
Then travel over to the second navigation bar that you will have found once you travel past the homepage and into the body of the site. This navigation bar takes place of the standard right-sided navigation bar but sort of appears in the middle of the page and I found a bit distracting. However, here you find the standard blog links such as Archives, and the blog categories: Classic Wine Pairings, CWM Transcripts, Editor’s Choice, Lisa’s Great Parings, The Wine Mogul, Wine and the City, Wine Buying Guides, Wine Prices, Wine Regions, and so much more. At the TOP of the site, you will then find links for Home, Wine Articles, Food and Wine, Wine Directories, Wine Accessories, Coupons, Videos, and Search Wines. I know it all sounds complicated, but spend some time here and it works itself out for you. As I said, the busyness lends to the comprehensiveness. They want to offer you a lot, and they do.
I am going with 4 corks for this one. The site is unique in that I don’t believe any wine question goes unanswered here. It is extremely active and the content is written very well by what appears to be a team of writers. As I said, the appearance can use some work but I think just moving that navigation bar over to the right side would make a huge difference. And I also think the ads are way too obvious, intrusive almost. However this site does well for marketing a large number of wine products, and provides useful and valuable information at the same time. I still recommend a bookmark if you are thinking about popping a cork anytime soon. Did you enjoy this review? Click here to get your own blog reviewed!
– Chrissie
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