Wine-Price Datapoints of the Day (Portfolio.com via Yahoo! Finance)

I just found Juliet Chung's fascinating article on wine pricing at restaurants, which appeared in the WSJ on Friday. Here's a couple of datapoints for you. A bottle of 2004 Opus One will cost you $195 at Houston's in San Francisco, or $425 at NoMI in Chicago; a 1999 Dom Pérignon Champagne is $155 at Legal Sea Foods in Washington, $595 at Per Se in New York.

Blind Wine Tasting to benefit United Cerebral Palsy (Birmingham News)

The junior board of the United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham wants the city's wine connoisseurs, or wannabe connoisseurs, to help them raise money.

Hammondsport celebrates wine harvest (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

A traditional bonfire at a Native American festival highlights the Keuka Lake Wine Trail, and other wineries not on the trail.

Vail Valley wine lists win awards (Vail Daily)

Beverage director Scott Yenerich holds up two wines from the Splendido wine list that he is especially excited to list, the Hundred Acre Cabenet and the Montevertine, an Italian tuscan red, Saturday in one of the restaurant's two wine room.

Where do you find a 2005 wine that will be drinkable in 2026? (Seattle Times)

What 2005 wine will still be good in 2026 so parents can toast their children's 21st birthdays?