What are you trying to learn exactly? You can learn a bit about them here, or I recommend the book "Wine for Dummies", it has a good Italian section.

Remembering them is easy! Thats what Snooth's for. Once you try a wine go and log it here, you can keep a list of what you tasted, your wishlist, we can help you find similar wines and you can see what the rest of the crowd here are drinking...

Ocean - I just took a look, those Wine Spectator classes look pretty interesting. I like that the price is pretty low, and you can just dabble, if you dont want to spend too much time.

I'm currently studying for my Certified Specialist of Wine from the Society of Wine Educators: http://www.societyofwineeducators.org/public/index.aspx. Its an online, study at home course, so fairly similar to the Wine Spectator stuff i'd imagine.

The other common, but pricier, option are the classes offered by the Wine and Spirits Education Trust: WSET. These are classroom based, so you dont have to worry about stay at home motivation issues, but are of course, more expensive. Mark's taken one of these courses, and I think he plans on doing another one soon.

I was at the bookstore this weekend and saw that the "Dummies" series has "Italian Wine for Dummies." If you specifically want Italian, you might want to start there!