HELP!!!!

[TheEngineer]

Great! Okay, so from someone also at an early stage, here is what I think may work. Please take everything with a BIG grain of salt!! I do not know the things that I do not know.

Like the other post that you have already received, you next step should be to get a good book.

Here is what I would do. Read carefully the introductory chapters on wine itself. The basis like what is it, how is it, how do you taste wine. Learn the few basic dozen or so major grapes for red and white.

Then, look at what your customers like to drink. Are they mostly domestic drinkers who like California. Are they really into the French. Many Australian fans?

Like all things, you can choose to learn a little about a lot or a lot about a little. I would suggest the latter approach and really dive into understanding two regions really well. I would pick one domestic and one foreign, say California and France, and the learn much more in depth about them first. This not only gives you much to talk about after you learn them, but it gives you the basis to learn other regions more quickly as you now know what you need to pick up.

So for France, learn that there are many different regions and appellations. Dig deep into Bordeaux first, then followed by Burgundy, Champagne, The Rhone, Beaujolais, the loire, Alsace, Languedoc-Roussillon and provence, kinda in that order.

Learn about the red and whites of each region and what makes them unique (ie that Burgundy only grows Pinor Noir for reds and that Bordeaux are always a mix and that Sauternes only exist due to "Noble Rot", or that the soil and slopes where the vineyards are are pointed south, or etc,...), these can give you much to talk about already.

I think that it will be interesting for you.