Why you don't need to learn to talk about wine

Hannah Fuellenkemper reflects on why she neither understands nor needs the technical language of wine

I used to think wine was for other people, just like martinis were for lawyers. While I drank it, my choices were based on a vague notion of the Rhone being in the south, and where the bottle stood on the supermarket shelf rather than knowledge. It was for others to know about. Others like Jancis Robinson whose FT Weekend columns so often go, ‘As you kn…