You're standing in a wine shop facing a wall of obscure (to you) Italian red wines. One sounds familiar. And the price is fair. But you've never heard of the wine before: Salice Salentino (sal-ee-chay sal-en-teen-oh).
A clerk is either not available or can't tell you anything about it. Have no fear, however; help is on the way. If, that is, you have a cellphone.
This essay is all about wine education "on the fly," which is about as painless as you can imagine since you don't have to learn anything about Garibaldi, Italian government regs or laws about how wine must be made.
Updated: Tue Jun 06, 2023