This short book will serve as a guide to help you understand the basic types of wine and common terminology so that you can go from sounding like a beginner to a more refined individual. It will not make you an expert and certainly not an oenophile. That is something that requires years of tasting and practice. Yet, even the experts had to start somewhere. In this book, we will start with the basics, including the answer to that oh so important question, "what is wine?"