Starting today, Dec. 26, Whole Foods is offering its wine for 20 percent off when you buy a case.

Think New Year's Eve. Or special occasions throughout 2012. You can select different bottles to make a case.

If you're a wine drinker, this is a pretty nice discount.

Sale ends Sunday, Jan. 1.

On Tuesdays and Wednesdays from now until Halloween, kids (10 and under) in costume eat free at Skylines Cafe.

Also, these weekly bargains continue to be offered at Skylines: 

* Wednesdays: half price bottles of wine

* Thursdays $5 martinis, with live music from 7:30-9:30pm

Wait, wait before you read with disdain, I still love bottled wine and
always will but I've discovered an alternative for those of us who are
single...

When I arrived for the Duplin Winery Tour, one of the first things I was handed was a bookmark that said cool, sweet & easy. These are good word to describe both the tour and the wine.

Friday Night Date Menu...The Recipes 

This is a follow-up to my earlier blog post.

Every Wednesday is half price wine night at Lucky 32 in Cary. That applies to nearly the entire selection of 132 wines by the bottle and 75 by the glass. The only exceptions are wine flights, sparkling wines and reserve wines.

Now that's a good reason to celebrate hump day if I've ever heard one.

From the Who Thought This Was A Good Idea? file: Presenting the Foghat Wine Collection, in special etched bottles at prices from $20 to $60. Um, right...

(Thanks, Bob.)