"Too often, we treat wine as something that can only be understood and enjoyed by connoisseurs, and therefore enjoyment of wine has to be preceded by a knowledge and understanding of wine. This partly accounts for the reason that people feel they must apologize for knowing little about wine, in a way that they would never feel about most other subjects, whether poetry, art, baseball or bread baking. In most areas of life, people feel free to dip in and experiment. If they find pleasure and they have time, then they pursue further knowledge. Why not wine?"

So true. http://thepour.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/the-dining-table-wine-school/

edit: hmm...can't seem to link very well yet...learning process in progress!

(10 min. later...next one will be 15 no doubt.)

got it! google FTW.

http://thepour.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/the-dining-table-wine-school/