A wine guide/ activity book called the Choose Your Own Adventure Drink-Along.
Most introduction to wine books have about the same information, and present it in a dry linear style. That works for someone (like me, for instance) who already really cares about wine, and wants to read about the Bordeaux classification of 1855 or different soil types in Burgundy or whatever. But that doesn’t really capture the imagination of someone who’s only kind of curious about wine.
When I was just getting started, books helped, but I picked up most of the information through osmosis. Instead of learning in a straight line, one topic after the other, it was like learning in a spiral.
So this would be a fun and lighthearted book that you could use as a beginner (or a beginning wine tasting group.) You could zigzag across different topics, or skip around, depending on what’s relevant to you. The whole thing would be printed on newsprint, with LOTS of prompts for people to add their own thoughts and doodles. By the end they might not know everything about wine, but they’d hopefully have a good idea of their likes and dislikes, and a general gestalt understanding. Plus lots of drunken drawings of, like, cats and stuff.