Here are my favorite resources for learning about wine. This is by no means intended to be exhaustive, but hopefully is a good starting point with a few helpful things to take with you.

BOOKS
Some books on wine I have enjoyed, either for the educational factor or entertainment value, or sometimes both!

Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
by Bianca Bosker

The Grail: A year ambling and shambling through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir wine in the whole wild world
by Brian Doyle

The Goode Guide to Wine: A Manifesto of Sorts
by Jamie Goode

The New York Times Book of Wine: More Than 30 Years of Vintage Writing
by Howard G. Goldberg

The Wine Bible
by Karen MacNeil

Oldman’s Guide to Outsmarting Wine: 108 Ingenious Shortcuts to Navigate the World of Wine with Confidence and Style
by Mark Oldman

Wine Folly: Magnum Edition: The Master Guide
by Madeline Puckette and Justin Hammack

How to Taste: A Guide to Enjoying Wine
by Jancis Robinson

Extreme Wine: Searching the World for the Best, the Worst, the Outrageously Cheap, the Insanely Overpriced, and the Undiscovered
by Mike Veseth

Kevin Zraly Windows on the World Complete Wine Course
by Kevin Zraly

VIDEOS
The Everyday Guide to Wine
This is an excellent course that I have gone through. Whether you’re brand new to wine or a seasoned enthusiast, this course is extremely thorough and informative. In fact, it’s largely based off of the rigorous Master of Wine program. It got me through months of lockdown during the pandemic. 

Blind Ambition
Touching, deeply moving film. 

Blood Into Wine
I had no idea one of my favorite band’s lead singers now makes wine in the Arizona desert. If you like Tool and wine, this film’s for you. 

Bottle Shock
Feel good film with Alan Rickman and Chris Pine in a hideous wig. 

The Mostly Serious History of Wine

Sideways
A love letter to California Wine Country. 

Somm

Somm: Into the Bottle

Somm III

Somm: Cup of Salvation

Uncorked

TOOLS
Le Nez du Vin Wine Aroma Master Kit
This is an awesome way to train your sense of smell using the 54 most common wine aromas. With proper care this kit of essential oils will last up to a decade (for smelling only). I have found it to be really fun and it has aided me in recognizing and differentiating between the more subtle aromas of wines. It comes with a great book which explains which types of wines exhibit which aromas.