We haven't had a lot of experience tasting wine -- as everything we know about it comes from a couple weeks as a contractor coding WineShopper pages and seeing Sideways. We're no Alder Yarrow. And no disrespect, but for a plebe like us discussing wine in lyrical descriptors embarrasses us. So we stick to simpler, subjective analyses -- "Mmmm. This is good," and "Could I try that other one?" Luckily, not one of the wineries we visited was pretentious at all -- if anything, it was all a little corny. In a good way.