What I have worked out
Everything from what fermentation is to how to spit without embarrassing yourself, weighted toward France and New Zealand, because that is what I am interested in so far.
Written in the order it made sense to learn it, but you can start anywhere. 25 chapters.
The tools
Contents
Where I started
What wine actually is
Foundations
What wine is, what the styles are, and where wine sits among everything else people drink.
The grapes
Two dozen varieties worth knowing, and how to read a grape you have never met from its structure alone.
Tasting
How to taste the same way twice, how to describe what you find, and how to tell a wine you dislike from a broken one.
How wine is made
Fermentation, the decisions around it, and where bubbles, sweetness and oak actually come from.
France
The country that decided wine should be named after places rather than grapes, and the five regions that argue the case.
New Zealand
A wine industry younger than most of the vines in Bordeaux, and how it got good so quickly.
The wider world
Nine countries in one chapter, at the length I can honestly write about them.
In practice
Serving, pairing, reading a label, and buying wine without being talked into anything.