Wine was meant to be enjoyed.Unfortunately, over the years, I've noticed it often causes people to experience anything but enjoyment. Why?It's easy to get caught up in the confusion and pressure of figuring out how to choose the “right” wine amid synthesizing an overwhelming amount of information, often influenced from wine "experts."Demystify Wine in an Hour: 6 Simple Keys to Enjoy Wine Anywhere, Anytime! was written to help the beginner who has an interest in learning more about wine, and doesn't have the interest or capacity to dedicate a lot of time to do it.The inquiry driving the book is "If a reader only had one hour to learn enough about wine to be able to enjoy it for a lifetime, what should be taught?" It took years for the simplicity of the answer in this book to come to me, and it wasn't what I expected.In order for you to enjoy wine again, you have to first break free from the Wine Trap of “making the right choice” and get brought back to why you like wine in the first place: the juice in the glass.How do you do that? Instead of trying to learn about it with your mind, we're going to slow down and enjoy the sensual pleasures of wine, noticing the details with your senses – the color, the smell, the texture, and of course, the taste.We will also demystify four other wine situations that often cause confusion and anxiety for the novice: food and wine pairing, reading a wine list, reading a wine label, and ordering wine in a restaurant.Over the course of this short book, you will be empowered to have a wine conversation with another person, so that you may begin to leverage someone else's knowledge, passion and love for it.Through lots of conversations, tasting, and laughing with passionate wine aficionados, my knowledge and passion for wine grew until I was doing the same for others. The reading and studying came a decade later.We don’t spend any time learning about grapes, regions, wineries, winemakers, terroir, vine grafting techniques and diseases, viticulture, vinification, fermentation, French vs. American oak barrels, bottling, aging, oxidation, blah blah blah.Why? If I poured you a glass of wine, none of that information would enhance your capacity to enjoy it right now. That's just more fuel for your mind to believe you don't know enough. You can begin learning all that stuff later, long after you break free of the Wine Trap.If you're looking for another "definitive text" on wine, you're in the wrong place. If you want a new start with wine, you're in the right place.Let’s get started. Order or pour yourself a glass of wine, and come join me.It's time to enjoy wine again.---Curtis