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HubCap: Meet our wine columnist

Contributed by: Brendan Leonard/YourHub.com   on 1/10/2007

If you're like me, when the waiter at the fancy restaurant starts talking about wine, you just tune out. You keep nodding as he talks about the wine's bouquet and how it complements whatever you're ordering, as if you're really listening. When he's finished, you say, "That sounds great," because you know you don't know anything about wine and you don't want to end up looking like a total fool.

Disclaimer: If you're like me, you're not eating at the fancy restaurant at all because you don't have enough money. But, I take certain liberties with this blog, so stick with me.

Maybe you'd like to learn something about wine, and even become a bit of a connoisseur, but there's no "Wine for Dummies" starting point, so you don't.

We know a guy who's kind of like that: Mike Keleman, of Arvada. He's our new wine guy. Actually, he's our only wine guy. But he's a regular guy, who likes wine, and won't act like he knows it all. Here's a little sample from his profile:

My goal is to share honest, non-snooty, advice on wine as if you were talking to your next door neighbor and he said, "Hey maaaan, last night, me and the old lady, we had a really nice bottle of wine, I totally would recommend it."

I think that the world of wine can be intimidating and confusing because there is so much to choose from. At times I felt that I needed to buy a velvet smoking jacket, bust out the ascot and say things like, "By-jove this bouquet strikes my fancy!"

That's what I like: Not someone who's writing about food and wine to show off their fancy vocabulary or the fact that they hang out at the right restaurants. I like guys like Mike, or Joe Serrano, the author of our Average Joe's Guide to Dining pieces.

Check out some of Mike's columns. The headlines on some of them should draw you right in. Especially Wine is like crack cocaine.

Chuck Norris vs. Charlie Brown's Teacher

Wine is like trying to dump an old girlfriend

To build or not build a wine cellar
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