Need some basic info

[Innkeeper]

Hi Benjam, and welcome to the Wine Board. An excellent book originally published in England and available in both of our countries is Michael Shuster's "Essential Winetasting." It covers how to taste wine, how wine is made, how wine is named, a comprhesive review of the winegrapes of the world along with their charaterisics, then he walks you through tastings of the specific wines, and ends with wine maps of the world, and an excellent glossary. It will run you around $40 Australian, and will greatly shorten your learning curve.