Excepting wine sots, most persons need only a modest amount of information about wine. They work full-time, have mates and/or children, or pets in need of care, and myriad activities that fill the schedule. This leaves little time in the schedule for reading about wine.

For most people, then, the Quarterly Review of Wines is an excellent choice.  Each issue is about 100 pages, and it is filled with useful information.  The magazine begins with a section called All Things Grape and Small, a series of news blurbs, some 30-50 words, pithily written, that will let you know the latest in the world of wine.  Who bought what winery, which warehouse burnt, which region is blighted with bugs or disease- that's the sort of stuff you'll find.  Thereafter comes a dozen or more articles 4 to 8 pages in length on a variety of subjects.  Some of the articles are accessible to the beginner, others are clearly aimed at oenophiles.

Whether you're itching to know whether So-and-So winery in California has wine worth buying, how the weather has been this year in Bordeaux and the ramifications thereof, or if you're merely scavenging for a list of inexpensive wines worth buying- you'll find it in the Quarterly Review of Wines. QRW also regularly carries pieces on cigars and pairing wine with food.

With twenty-two years of publishing under their belt, the Quarterly Review of Wines is well worth $15 a year, be you new to wine or an old hand.  And since it arrives in your mailbox just four times per year, you'll have plenty of time to read as much of it as you like without rush or duress.