Let's be honest, adults: there are a lot of things that we just pretend to understand. We don't really know what we're talking about, but maybe we've taken a weekend class, or we've gone to a seminar, or we've read a little bit about it, and we pretend to be experts. There are even people who are licensed experts who sometimes don't understand what we're talking about and what we're really getting at when we talk about some of these things. I want to start our exploration of these things we pretend to understand with wine, and I'll be right back to do that.

I love a good bottle of wine, but I will be honest: I have a hard time telling the difference between a $10 bottle of wine and a $400 bottle of wine. As a matter of fact, I think that's the situation with almost all of us. No one wants to say, "Hey, this tastes exactly like the cheaper one," and ruin the party. We just all go along with it and pretend, but we don't really know what we're talking about.