Unless you're well-versed on the details, choosing wine can be overwhelming. Vintages, labels, chateaux, good years versus bad years... How do you keep it all straight?

Never fear, Max and John are here, along with two wine experts, Jeff Wyatt and John Mathew Smith, to dig into the wide, wide world of wine to answer the following questions:

• Has France lost its wine place as the world's leader in wine?
  
• What's happened with Australian wines? Too big? Overblown? Have they lost their luster?
  
• What are the hot products on the market these days?
  
• How has the recession affected wine sales here?