Is anyone drinking the wine? Part of the reason I was drawn to Sonoma is because you are allowed a glass of wine. I don't drink it every day, but I do enjoy it several evenings a week with dinner, especially a nice Chianti or other red table wine with pasta.

I have a question about wine also. I have never been a wine drinker so I am a rookie. We are going to Vegas. What is the best out on the town red wine?? Can I mix it with some kind of sparkling water or something to make it go a little fruther??

A lot depends on the kind of wine you like. I am not a wine connoisseur, so I will drink under $10 wine with no problem. If you like a drier wine, as I do, I have found one called "Principato Rosso" that sells in Pennsylvania for $9.93. The clerk at the liquor store told me it is the same wine served at the Olive Garden as their house red. If you like a sweeter wine, a lot of people like White Zinfandel, although since developing a taste for the dries I really can't stand sweet wines any more. The only way to know for sure what you will like is to try and see. If you have friends who keep wine around, maybe they would allow you to do a taste test!

I'm drinking the wine...not every night, but I've had a few glasses since starting wave 2 (even 1 on wave 1...I kinda cheated that night hehehe)

I'm having fun just picking up a new wine each time. The first bottle I tried was a nice reisling...would love to have that again. This last one was a drier red...might be okay for cooking, but I can't drink much for dinner. Might finish it off tonight at dinner, or hold on to some for cooking with.

I plan to drink wine several times a week, or daily if I feel like it! I had some kind of red wine Saturday but I don't know what it was because I was at my cousin's and didn't think to ask. I tend to favor reds and drink mostly cabernet sauvignon, pinot noir, chianti, and some French red table wine (can't think of its name). On hot afternoons, a cold glass of sauvignon blanc is quite nice.

Gina, I agree that you should experiment and see what you like. You can find plenty of good wines for under $10 a bottle. Do you have a Trader Joe's near you? I get almost all my wine there and their "Two-Buck Chuck" is a decent every-day wine. When you're in Vegas, you might want to see if there are any wineries nearby where you can go wine tasting. Wineries are popping up all over the Western U.S.; there is even one in Nogales, Arizona (miserable hot desert) that bottles a wonderful wine called Rattlesnake Red.

I have been trying to drink a little more wine. I have been buying the individual bottle ones because I hate opening a big bottle and only drinking one glass (I live alone). I have the little stoppers but regardless of what people say, it never tastes the same the next day. I have found this a good approach but it does limit my options as not many wines come in the little individual servings.

Petra - What a great idea. I am soooo gonna start popping into the different stores and see what is there for individual servings! --- I totally Agree! It never tastes the same the next day!

Rattlesnake Red -- gotta love it! I bought one recently called Red Truck. I also like Pescevino; it comes in a fish-shaped bottle in both a red and a white.

Hmmm. . . you actually get to drink wine on this plan? What about eating cheese?

One of my favorite wines is an Australian red called Tyrell's Long Flat Red and my other is an Italian Merlot called Donini - I think they were both under $12.00.

DH found that Reisling that we enjoyed at the restaurant a while ago...it was only $8 at the grocery store...I was going to post this at home so I could give you the name, but I'm at work...I'll revise it when I get home so I can tell you the name. Wonderful wonderful stuff! And to think we paid $22 for it at the restaurant...but they gotta make a profit too!