11.   Before buying wine, taste it.

12.   A wine future is a contract to buy wine before it is ready to be delivered.

13.   Bulwik regularly buys wine at Cost Plus and generally winds up with more in her shopping cart.

14.   But he insists that they can be helpful in buying wine in shops and restaurants.

15.   Buy excellent wines.

16.   Buying wine a bottle at a time is a nuisance.

17.   --Buy wines from vintages, or years that get high ratings from critics.

18.   Duboeuf is a shipper who buys his wines from hundreds of small producers in the Beaujolais region.

19.   For his own label he prefers to buy finished wines and blend them.

20.   For starters, each state sets its own laws for buying wine via the Internet.