Confidence is key.

You don't have to know much about wine to appreciate it or serve it. When serving a wine it's important to be confident, and besides everyones palettes are different so what I love, you might hate, and vice versa. It's not about how expensive it is, or what some wine critic says about how good it is. Use your own tastebuds to decide whether or not you like it and will buy it again.

My husband loves earthy wines like South African Pinotage, and I hate earthy wines. To me, earthy is a polite way of saying "It tastes like mud." I've tried to like Pinotage, and I just can't do it. I've gone to wine tasting parties where one person's favourite is another person's least favourite.

It's sort of like taste in men (or women), I like my guy the way he is, tall, fit, but not bulky at all, and clean cut. A friend of mine likes her men stocky and not too much taller than her, with a very sure of themselves (cocky) attitude. This friend probably has the opposite taste in wine than me too, and that is totally acceptable.

Be confident, and have fun trying different wines.