Laughren has spent decades enjoying, purchasing, importing and distributing wine and educating consumers and businesses about the basic and finer aspects of wine selection and enjoyment. With A Beer Drinker’s Guide To Knowing And Enjoying Fine Wine he gives the reader a great start to exactly how – and what – one should taste (not guzzle) when trying a wine, how taste buds and flavor perception really work, wine lingo, i.e., how to actually decode snobby wine speak, and clear descriptions of the “Old World” and “New World” wine regions and their most important varietals.

“Written so as to educate without patronizing, A Beer Drinker’s Guide to Knowing And Enjoying Fine Wine clears a path through the abstruse world of wine-geekdom,” says Laughren and “hidden among nuggets of beer lore, are secret tips for appearing ’extra’ wine smart while building your knowledge, “ he adds.