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Robin Garr is a wine lover and journalist based in Louisville, where he is the wine writer for Louisville Magazine. He wrote the wine column for The Louisville Times and The Courier-Journal for more than 10 years and was the restaurant critic for the Louisville newspapers during most of the 1980s. He continues as Louisville restaurant critic for the Iglou Internet service provider and JustGo Kentucky.

He buys the wines he discusses here at his own expense, accepts no "freebies," and has no business relationships in the wine industry. His notes on wines that offer good quality for a budget price, are updated several times a week.

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The Wine Lovers' Page has been rated in the top 5 percent of all Web sites by The Point; judged a Four Star (Best of the Web) site twice by Yahoo! Internet Life and a 4-Star Magellan site; awarded a top (four-box) rating on the i GUIDE Guide to the Net, and received Simpliciter's "Excellence Without Excess" award. The Wine Lovers' Page has been named one of the Top 10% Cooking Sites on the Net by Mega Bites, and selected as a Gold Medallion winner in Internet World Expo.

We've also been chosen as a Starting Point Choice Site, honored for "exceptional presentation, depth of content, and value; named the place to begin seeking wine resources on the web by Excite's Life & Style tours; granted the top Platinum Award by NetGuide, named a 4-Star Site by the RDL National Cool Site Award; and declared "the best the Net has to offer" by the Swiss "CastleNet's BookMarked On The Web."

In April 1997, we were named "Web Site of the Day" by CNN Headline News, which declared the Wine Lovers' Page the place to go for wine information on the Web; and Food and Wine Online Newsletter and ChefNet featured us as Food and Wine Online Site of the Day, "chosen for outstanding content and design."

Later, The Washington Post and The New York Times joined the chorus. The Post led its article "On-Wine Services" with a favorable review of our page, declaring it "one of the best sites going" for wine information and particularly praising our strict policy of paying our own way and buying our own wine. The Times called us "folksy and friendly" and praised our "huge volume of resources."

More major media accolades: The Wall Street Journal and Investor's Business Daily virtually simultaneously listed us as one of the top two wine-related sites on the Web, the other being Wine Spectator's online magazine. Accolades have also come in from The Ann Arbor News and Food & Wine magazine and from TIME Digital, which called our site "a gem."

Meanwhile, however, there's something to be said for the classics, like the old word processor that I proudly used to hand-weave the original version of these pages. I've since retired it, though, in favor of another remarkably good -- and inexpensive -- word processor, NoteTab Pro.