This course is not going to make you a sommelier, and it isn't trying to. It's not here to teach you how to look impressive at a dinner or how to win a conversation, because that was never really what wine was for, and it isn't what this app is for either. Most of us drink wine the way we do most things, quickly, half paying attention, already reaching for the next thing before we've noticed the one in our hand. Perhaps there's more in the glass than that. And perhaps a little understanding is the whole difference between drinking something and actually tasting it.
One note before any of it. If you don't drink, for whatever reason, none of this is asking you to start. There's no virtue here you'd be missing out on. The thing underneath all of it — the gratitude, the slowing down, the people around the table — you can have every bit of that over a glass of water.
