It's been a while sense I've been wine blog cruising, wait too long....

Grape Thoughts is thinking about wine for gift giving and suggests a gift box of Dom Perrion.

Basic Juice says cost should not dictate taste when it comes to champagne.

Cheers has been fighting off the flu, but his wife took over taste testing recently when it came to a bottle of 2004 Tamas Estates Sangiovese.

Doktor Weingolb discusses sparkling wines, especially Chenin Blanc sparkling wine from Touraine.

Grape Radio has a new podcast all about rice wine, aka sake.

Fermentation has some unique satellite wine imagery - really!

Lenndevours has some handy holiday wine survival tips.

Uncorked explains how restaurants are conducting research to learn how to sell you more wine.

Wino Sapien examines a bottle of Reynell Basket Press shiraz 2002.