Too many flavors & no clue!!!

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Good advice from MrD. I would add a couple of suggestions:
- Pick up a couple of wine magazines at your bookstore; Food & Wine, and Wine Spectator come to mind.
- Thoroughly explore this Board, and pay particular attention to the forums on the different types of wines. You'll find a number of tasting notes there, that will describe the tastes and aromas of different wines.
- Explore other wine-oriented web sites, such as winespectator.com and wineloverspage.com.
- Check the section of your local newspapers that deal with food and wine and the restaurant scene, and look for announcements of wine tastings at wine shops and hotels. Enlist a friend to go with you to some of them, then go and participate, and discuss your experiences and perceptions regarding the wines that are offered. Buy a couple of bottles from among those that you tasted, and take them home with you, and enjoy them with the foods that were recommended to accompany them.

Wine appreciation is really a matter of education, just as it is with any other activity. The process of learning about wine requires modest investments of time and money that yield wonderful life-enhancing dividends in a very short period of time.