I love drinking wine but would love to learn more about it. I plan to go to Italy and Napa this year for some wine tastings. Any suggestions of ways to increase my knowledge (i.e, books, classes etc?). I live in nyc for context

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-Join r/wine
-Take a WSET course
-Watch wine movies - I love Bottle Shock
-Try popular grapes from different regions, look up the tasting/smell on Vivino and try and pick up the same yourself (every grape/region has their unique profile - I love Sicilian Nero D’Avila grapes because when you first pop the cork you immediately get salt water smell)
- Research different things that impact flavor (old vines vs young vines, new world vs old world)

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Or as they would imply - your palate has evolved.

Listen to the "ill drink to that podcast"
. Hundreds of episodes interviewing wine makers and sommeliers, each with their own passion and specialty.

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Where to listen?

Windows on the World by Kevin Zraly. He has a really interesting background and was cellar master of windows on Sept. 11, 2001 (if memory serves, they held a tasting the night before but he was not in the building at the time of the attack).

Karen McNeil’s wine bible is great but dense.

Jancis Robinson’s world atlas of wine.

My novice friends love the wine folly book

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Wine Folly is a great book!

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Go to Terroir (the wine bar in Meatpacking) and talk to the bartenders

Dark Horse in Williamsburg also a good option

Also Sohm in midtown is good but a bit pretentious

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Course wise the WSET program is pretty good

For a book try Wine Folly or The Wine Bible

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As mentioned above WSET level 1 is a great foundation course in wine

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Piedmont in Italy!

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Buy a subscription to Somm TV

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