First time?  I’ll be gentle, I promise!

Welcome to 1WineDude.com!  Thanks for visiting.  You look great, by the way – did you cut your bangs?

Anyway, this site exists to help you learn more about wine.  I primarily try to do this by a) entertaining you, b) providing useful information to you, and c) (hopefully) making you laugh along the way.

Let’s start by agreeing that, no matter what you’ve heard, learning to appreciate wine does not have to be daunting, expensive, or reserved for some strange elite with magical noses.  You can learn to appreciate wine just as you can food, cooking, music, or anything else that you enjoy.

This site can help you do that.

Take a look around, leave some comments, offer your feedback, but don’t stay too long or your boss might catch you surfing on the job, ok?  Here are a few things on the site that you might want to check out first:

• Best Of Dude – particularly popular posts that you might enjoy
• About page – the story behind the site
• Comments & Ratings Policy – hey, this is public, after all
• The 1WineDude.com Wine Tasting Guide – an inexpensive eBook (also available in Kindle and print versions) that will give you a tried-and-true system for better wine appreciation (it’s the same system I used, so I know it works!).

Friend Me Up

If you’re a social-networking type, friend me up on any of the following networks (twitter & facebook work best, for me anyway):

• twitter (also, don’t forget my wine ‘mini’ reviews on twitter)
• facebook
• Open Wine Consortium
• winecliQ
• Wine 2.0
• MyBlogLog
• FriendFeed

Before you ask – yes, I am fully aware that this site looks like crap in IE 6.  I don’t need to fix it – you need to upgrade.

Oh, yeah, before I forget – all the photos of me that appear on the blog have been digitally enhanced to make my nose appear bigger.

Cheers!