Why are the French (and Brits) so clueless about wine? Why do they learn almost nothing about wine from what they drink? What should wine cost? How can you spot a decent restaurant wine list? And choose wisely from a bad one? Does wine go with anything? Are medals a guide to wine quality? Will your favourite wine be coming soon from China's Ningxia province? What kind of wine fault is man boobs? And what's so boring about Victoria Moore? These are some of the questions I addressed as wine columnist for three years at France's English-language newspaper The Connexion. The answers are in The Wine Diary, a collection of humorous and trenchant essays on winemaking and marketing.