The most comprehensive guide to buying and cellaring Australian wine.

The online version of the best-selling The Australian Wine Annual takes away the uncertainty of choosing which Australian wine to buy and when to drink it.

It features more than 20,000 vintages of 2,400-plus wines from more than 450 Australian wineries, which you can browse with powerful search and sort facilities. In fact, you access the same depth and flexibility as Jeremy Oliver's own system.

It's dead simple to use the ratings and winery database, which enables instant identification of wines and their ratings, giving users a clear indication of the quality and recommended drinking windows for each wine. Many of the wines listed have links to full tasting notes, which only subscribers to the site are able to access.

This online database also enables users to select and sort wines based on Jeremy Oliver's unique Wine Ranking system, which easily remains the most comprehensive ranking of Australian wine in existence.

This website is the only place in which Jeremy Oliver publishes his scores out of 20, which remains the system he initially uses to score each wine before converting it for publication into the 100-point scale. So, if you want access to the most precise scores he gives, this is the place to see them.

A user might wish to ask a query like: "What are the best Margaret River cabernet sauvignons from the year 1990?" which will produce a result in a list that could be sorted by maker, rating or cellaring potential, with click-through links to each relevant wine producer. That sort of instantaneous search would require a considerable amount of time with any hard copy wine guide, plus a knowledge of what Margaret River wineries were making cabernet sauvignon.

Other features of this unique online resource also include:

• Regular updates every month to include new releases and re-tastings of older wines.
• Full colour design and easy to follow format with a reproduction of each wine label.
• Commentary on each winery or brand.
• Winery contact details including key personnel, phone, e-mail and website.*

* Where the entries refer to just a vineyard whose wines are made elsewhere, the address supplied is for the vineyard itself. If you're thinking of visiting a vineyard and wish to be sure whether or not it is open for public inspection, perhaps you might contact the company first to find out.