macrocephalopod

Bro, for a beer and whisky lover, what's the best way to learn/start vintage wines? My knowledge of wine stops at: "just give me cabernet sauvignon, shiraz or the driest red you have."

This is a really difficult question to answer in a tweet. You often hear that you should just drink a lot of wine and figure out what you like, but that wasn’t helpful for me. I found it much more fulfilling to pick a region and learn a lot about it (read books, blogs etc) while

drinking a range of different wines at different price points. I also think it is genuinely helpful to try some of the top wines in the region to experience the full range, whereas common wisdom seems to be to stick to the mid-range wines that offer the best value.

If you like cabernet and dry reds then Bordeaux is a good place to start. It’s simple enough to be understandable but complex enough to have interesting stuff to discover. It has some of the top wines in the world, but apart from the premier crus they are all pretty well priced.