Sure, it's easy enough when you're out on the town: the waiter inquires if you'd care to view the wine list, and you simply demur and offer up the honor to one dining companion or another.  Why, you're almost magnanimous about it! No one at the table suspects a thing, as once again, you privately take a moment to curse your most shameful secret.

You don't know the first thing about wine.

You couldn't tell your nose from your legs. You wouldn't know a tannin if it walked up and bit you on the bouquet. You can continue to live your lie -- drinking your sorrows away with wine that other people have chosen, or pay a visit to the Wine Junction in Mount Kisco.

With years of experience, manager Chris Zoski is only too happy to give you a Wine for Dummies-style crash course. Tell him what you're serving at your next dinner party and he'll offer you spot-on wine suggestions. The store stocks bottles in all varieties and price points. Your wallet and your palette will appreciate the $10 section. (Of course you can also pick up a $2000 Burgundy if money's no object.)

While you may be a long way off from a new career as a sommelier, a few visits to the shop will give you enough confidence to order the wine yourself.

Now if you could only learn how to open the bottle without breaking the cork.  

Wine Junction
36 E Main Street, Mount Kisco
914-244-9463