Reddit reviews Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2009 Edition (Kevin Zraly's Complete Wine Course)
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"Windows of the World Complete Wine Course" by Kevin Zraly is great and seems to be the consensus best book for beginners.
3 time restaurant/bar owner here. Taking classes is good or your can get a bartending for dummies book and Franmara's The Bartenders' Black Book and do that shit on your own. Either way you will still have to sign on somewhere as a barback. You will never get hired at a real restaurant or bar with no actual, direct experience.
If you want to work at a really nice restaurant with a decent wine list add http://www.amazon.com/Windows-World-Complete-Wine-Course/dp/1402757468. That shit will give you more wine knowledge than 90% of the bartenders out there. Plus it's patriotic as fuck because the class used to be held in building one of the first World Trade Center pre 9/11.
If you want to learn how to flip bottles and shit go somewhere where you can be alone, grab your ankles and try your hardest to stick your head up your ass. That's as useful as you will ever be to a real, non theme park themed libation establishment. Learn everything you can about every spirit your establishment offers and learn how to craft drinks quickly, efficiently and well and you will be a rockstar. Treat the place that hires you with respect and honesty and you will be rewarded handsomely. Forget that you can be replaced and work for your tips over the interests of your employer and you will find yourself unemployed and unemployable.
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Congratulations.
Web: Check out the links in our FAQ thread. Most of the better wine sites have learning sections that teach the basics. Or, for that matter the Wine Wiki is a good springboard to learning about things like the classifications of wine and an intro to tasting, etc.
Books:
These books are a must and Will help you even if your slinging pie
Setting the Table
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0060742763/ref=mw_dp_sim_ps3?pi=SL500_SY125
The Mere Mortal's Guide to Fine Dining
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0767922034
Windows on the World
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1402757468/ref=redir_mdp_mobile
Start with setting the table, it has alot of stuff in it that seems like commonsense, but, if you do it.......you will find that most of it works
"make it nice"