This article is a resource for you to find interesting sites.
I have performed website appraisal on 375 sites and I have ranked only the top 100.
Herebelow is an analysis of the results.
The big guns
In the fourth quarter of any year, many people look for food or wine information on the Web. This primarily benefits the established brands. The 4 sites that gained most valuation this quarter year are those the 4 top sites.
More generally a few sites dominate the pack. This is partly due to their early appearance on the Web (Wine Spectator, Wine lovers page). It is also partially because they have the weight of offline publications behind them (Wine Spectator, the New York Times, Wine Advocate, Dr. Vino).
In the last few years a few authors made their way to popularity. They steadily rose by virtue of:
- producing consistently good content that people want to consume;
- and being regularly cited by their peers.
Diversity
The recent holiday season has favoured the big sites. You can expect challengers to rise in the next installment in April.
In the last few years the web offer has immensely diversified. Everybody and their wine supplier now has a blog. There now are many quality wine critics who comment on line. Some belong to the mainstream media, others not. You can have your voice too and this is good for everybody.
So go on a reading journey by browsing the list of 100 best wine sites!
How to participate
Websites are automatically included in the contest as soon as I learn of their existence. To be eligible to the next issue of the Cellarer wine directory, the below conditions must be met:
- The main topic should be wine.
- Producing estates and wine sellers are excluded. Some of them run wonderful websites but the type of information is different.
If you disagree with the directory criteria, please comment below or e-mail me.
Once the above conditions are fulfilled the websites are also considered for addition to another tool: a search engine dedicated to wine and food.
Here are the metrics I use for rating the wine sites. You can follow the directory evolution by subscribing to the feed on websites 
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3 websites clearly stand out as the biggest wine hubs: the Wine Spectator, the Wine lovers page and Robert Parker’s forum. This in part is explained by their quality. It is also explained by the long time they have been known by wine enthusiasts.
So lie back, relax, and enjoy my comments on 
Most of the top websites stem from operations based in the US. The majority of the listed sites are written from that country. The following facts may contribute: the USA are still the country the most present on the Web, they still dominate the English-speaking culture and they are on a trend to become the top wine drinking country in the world.
The number of websites that I retrieve metrics for is 500. This list is close to being complete: it includes almost all the websites 