Since most other things have been covered here I just wanted to spend a bit of time discussing wine. 10 years ago I was an avid beer drinker. I couldn't stand the taste of wine. I thought chardonney tasted like rubbing alcohol that had soaked in sawdust for a couple years. Red wine was even more vile.

I have to admit I started enjoying wine with white zinfandel ( I know it is yuppie and girlish, but facts are facts.) Someone told me to try Rieslings which I enjoyed for a year or so greatly moving to drier and drier ones. I have since changed to Pinot Grigios, White Burgundy, CHardonney, many other different European wines that I continue to enjoy.( although I still think saugignon blanc tastes like cat pee) I have finally made the jump to red wine enjoying the Pinot Noirs the best and since suggested by my mudcat wine Guru, Emma B, the Burgundy (Pinot Noir)

I continue to be intrigued by wine, but it is a love-hate relationship because the people who get "into" wine seem to fall in two different camps (much like folk music I guess) the people who want to share information with you because it is just so neat what they have found a particular wine, a particular vintage a particular whatever. The other group are the wine snobs, which I find to be very tiresome and a royal pain in the ass. How someone can act like they are superior to anyone else just because they have a different taste or a different bit of information escapes me. I

find the same zeal amongst the cheese afficionados as the wine enthusiasts and that is also very neat. Our resident wine folks that I have learned a lot from are EMMA B, MICCA and Giok. I would be interested in what others have to say about this special subject.