What goes on in the Members' Room?

If you're wondering whether to join it might help to run through all the benefits you get from signing up:

• First and foremost you can get personal advice and help on what wines (or other drinks) to serve with the meals you’re planning, taking into account your own preferences in food and wine. (You can also see the kind of questions other people have asked me in the Ask Fiona section)

• If you subscribe for a year you get a free ebook, worth £8.99 (about $17.50 or €13.40 at the current rate of exchange) which contains an A-Z of most of the dishes and ingredients you’re likely to want to match. That’s worth at least a third of your subscription!

• You can get the detailed lowdown on all my latest food and drink matching experiences in Tips, Trends and Techniques: the restaurants and tastings I’ve been to and the latest pairings I’ve discovered at home. And find out my latest top-rated matches in Top Picks
  

• You get an exclusive monthly menu on which you can base your own food and wine matching dinner for family or friends

• You can practise your matchmaking skills with my Play Sommelier features, checking out your wine matches against my suggestions for six typical restaurant dishes
  

• You can participate in all the discussions in the Members' Forum and pick up tips from other members who visit the site

• You can visit Great Places to Go, which will build into a worldwide database of places where you can enjoy a fantastic food and wine matching experience.

• You will, in due course, be able to take advantage of the special offers I hope to negotiate for members of matchingfoodandwine.com

• You should get to eat and drink better

• Your friends will be impressed

• It’s fun!