We've joined the podcast lineup of Capital Public Radio, Sacramento's NPR station. We hope they survive us. And we remind people that you can't do anything wrong with wine – despite all the stories about what you're doing wrong. We also answer questions about butter and why sommeliers always looks so stiff.

We'll explain about vintages and vintage charts, and answer question from listeners about screwcaps, Rosés and why many wine websites offer wine no one has heard of.

This is the time for sparkling wine in all its forms, and we'll tell you what many of them are. Plus listener questions about flying corks and how many bubbles are in a bottle of bubbly.

We talk about how wine blends with the holiday parties, gifts, meals and, of course, the family wine snob. Plus listeners ask about corked wines, and serving box wine at a bash.

We ask whether sommelier certification and other wine tests produce more wine snobs, and we have listener questions about alcohol levels in wine, wine glasses and much more.

We look at crowd sourcing sites and apps for reviewing wines, our horrible wine writing oscillates with special horribleness, and we take questions from listeners about what to do with a bad bottle of wine, about using wine apps in a restaurant, and more.

We talk about the silly notion that real wine drinkers only drink certain wines and take questions on wines that travel and how to best chill wines.

We explain why some wine pros don't get the concept of wine being smooth (hint: they're snobs), we have questions about ordering wine on a date and about why critics don't review supermarket wines , and we have another example of why younger adults don't trust older wine writers (second hint: they're condescending by reflex).

We attempt to explain why wine writing is often so useless and whether wild thimbleberry and mountain blueberry are different from the regular kind (and, while we're at it, what is thimbleberry)? And listeners ask about what to do with expensive wine and more.

With St. Patrick's Day coming, we repeat a detour and talk about that crazy-hot supernova, craft beer, and about how it connects to wine, we answer the question, what has more calories, beer or wine, we have a few horrible beer reviews, and we have some wisdom from one of history's greatest beer drinkers – Cliff Clavin of Cheers.