Yearly recap and wine resolutions thread

[hotwine]

Just realized I hadn't answered Mark's question.

Suggest you start in Tuscany with Chianti Classico and Toscano IGT; then try Barbera (esp. d'Alba), then Barbaresco, then Barolo, then Brunello. That's just an opinion, in trying to move from the simplest and (cheapest) to the most complex (and expensive). (Although that kind of generalization needs all sorts of qualifiers..... some of the IGT wines ain't cheap in anybody's book!)

I tend to ignore wines from places south of Rome. Fair? No, just preference.