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Denison Arts and Wine Renissance returns Saturday (Sherman Herald Democrat)
By Jessica Richardson Herald Democrat DENISON After more than a decade spent under big tops downtown, the Denison Arts and Wine Renaissance will be moving indoors at the historic Katy Depot and getting back to its roots.

Top Tips for Cooking with Wine
Cooking with wine, like drinking wine, can add another dimension to a recipe. Cultivating and enhancing flavors while accentuating textures are the main incentives for adding wines to recipes. If…

Questions Raised Over Wine Kiosks (Electronic Frontier Foundations)
Pennsylvania’s chief liquor regulator says a plan to offer wine in up to 100 free-standing kiosks in grocery stores is part of the state’s ongoing attempt to modernize the way it sells alcohol.

Wine tasting: Matching wine with rich Southern cheese grits and bacon-wrapped shrimp (Dallas Morning News)
This month, the Taste wine panel brought the grill out from hibernation for a Southern-inspired menu: bacon-wrapped shrimp served with cheese grits. Once considered a down-home breakfast dish, decadent versions of grits now flank sophisticated entrees at some upscale American restaurants.

Drink wine and save Mother Earth (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Norwegians will soon be able to help save the planet from global warming by savouring a glass of Bordeaux, a wine importer said on Tuesday.

Top Tips for Cooking with Wine
Cooking with wine, like drinking wine, can add another dimension to a recipe. Cultivating and enhancing flavors while accentuating textures are the main incentives for adding wines to recipes. If…

Dibbern on Wine: South African Wine Tasting
Donald A. Dibbern Jr., back from South Africa, offers extensive tasting notes for a wide variety of recent releases from most of the country’s major wine regions.

PLCB Considers Wine Vending Machines

Is the day coming when you’ll be able to punch and kick the machine because you popped your card into it and you’re bottle of cabernet sauvignon got hung up in it? It’s possible. via WOGY-AM Pittston

Wine Sulfites
Sulfur dioxide (SO2), or “sulfites” as they are best known in the wine world, is a chemical compound that occurs naturally at low levels during the process of wine fermentation….

WINE EVENTS For expanded listings of wine events, visit www.oregonlive.com and type keywords Wine Events. (The Oregonian)
Blend Your Own Wine: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tue, April 29; Urban Wineworks, 407 N.W. 16th Ave.; 503-226-9797; $40, includes class and a bottle of your own blend.

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