So every expert needs to learn their expertise somewhere. Either you are born and raised in a winery or your dad is a sommelier, or you go the more traditional route…you study (gasp!). There is a lot more to wine that meets the aficionado’s eye, and most wine writers and connoiseurs have a lot of reading to do to keep up with the latest. Every time a new harvest comes in or a new bottle hits the shelf, everything you know could be challenged once again…Here is a reading list from Fermentations’ Tom Wark: FERMENTATIONS: The Daily Wine Blog: Wine Books We Need