For the benefit of those of you who are blog visitors, but don’t get to the main wineanorak.com site, here’s what I posted there of late. Some people ask why I have both a blog and a website running in tandem. The answer? It’s because blogs are good for some things, but not for others. No one wants to read a 1000 word blog post. And blogs are a bad way of storing information in a logical manner so it can be retrieved easily at a later date.

• Top 30 reds, whites and sparkling wines: from my Sunday Express column
• Myskhako: part 5 of my visit to Russia’s Black Sea Coast
• Viña Ventisquero: Chile’s diversity, part 3
• Steenberg: a visit to this specialist white wine estate in Constantia, South Africa
• Niepoort Colheitas: vertical tasting of these great single-vintage tawny Ports
• 2011: the year in pictures
• Benovia: high-end boutique winery in Sonoma, California
• Visiting Michel Chapoutier: a trip to one of the Rhône’s most famous producers
• The Hill of Hermitage: the famous northern Rhône appellation
• Champagne Philipponnat: remarkable fizz, including the celebrated Clos des Goisses
• Kumeu River: a Chardonnay specialist from New Zealand’s West Auckland
• Pegasus Bay: noted Riesling specialist from New Zealand’s Waipara region
• Kumeu River: a Chardonnay specialist from New Zealand’s West Auckland
• Thelema: one of South Africa’s top estates reviewed
• Donson & Lepage: micronegociant Champagne house reviewed