Confession time. For a food writer, I am woefully below average in terms of wine knowledge.
My immediate family members are not drinkers. I was never properly introduced to wine appreciation. In college, my friends chugged beers. To me, a wine cooler was a wimpy drink, not a mini-fridge for storing bottles, with temperature and humidity controls. Honestly, until recently I could not even spell oenology or viticulture without looking at a dictionary.
But I do know a pathetic and desperate...