I know that many of you are going Saturday night to the Wine & Cheese Festival, an annual fund-raiser for the Northern Montana Health Care Foundation. So, with help from the foundation's Kathleen Richardson, I'm going to share with you a little knowledge about wines and wine protocol.

You'll have a lot of tasting to do at this event. You'll have chardonnays, Johanisberg reislings and a pinot gris among the white wines, and cabernet sauvignon, merlot and what I suspect may be a very tasty syrah, this particular one from Snoqualmie Vineyards, among the reds. Bush and sparkling wines are also...