New in here - and in wines

[Innkeeper]

Hi Thomas and welcome to the Wine Board. I don't want to overwhelm you, but there are hundreds, if not thousands of different red wine grapes. These are made into an almost infinite different styles of wines. A book available on the international market is Janis Robinson's "Concise Wine Companion." This is an abbreviated paperback edition of her larger reference work. It covers many of the different grapes and wines in the world of wine. Don't recommend reading it cover to cover, but you can look up Merlot for instance, and then look up another grape such as Cabernet Franc. Then you can see how she views them diffently, and since she is one of the world's formost authorities, she is usually accurate.