Tannins?

[tandkvd]

Thanks Mr. D, your info helped alot. I tought it had something to do with the skins.

And to WW, I am sorry that my question was a little too basic for someone of your knowledge of wine. But this is however the thread for novices such as myself.
Yes, I have began reading a book geared toward the wine novice(The Everything Wine Book by Danny May & Andy Sharp). But I like to get information from many sources. And I have gained a wealth of knowledge from this web-site, especialy from Stevebody & Inkeeper.
In My position at work, I am training service technitions in the Commercial Heating & A/C field. It is my openion that the only dumb question is the one not asked.

A quick quote from the introduction of the above mentioned book "...wine has become associsted with an unfortunate degree of social stuffiness, and a wine snob can be the most annoying snob of all. Because of such people, many wine novices have an unreasonable fear of looking foolish."