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As we speak, boatloads of Beaujolais "Nouveau" are hitting our shores. A marketing ploy concocted decades ago to promote Beaujolais around the world, the wine is released annually on the third Thursday of November, which is today.

Our Jaunt of the Week is spending the day in downtown McKinney, where you can stroll and shop in charming surroundings.

As a warmup for the holiday season, the Southern Oregon Repertory Singers are presenting a collection of songs celebrating the ups, downs and foibles of such human passions as romance, coffee and tobacco - and to demonstrate that J.S. Bach and his fellows of the Baroque era did something other than compose church music.

Drinking a bottle of wine a day, or half a dozen beers, cuts the risk of heart disease by more than half in men, an extraordinary study reports.

Happy Beaujolais Nouveau Day! This third Thursday of November is Beaujolais Nouveau Day where Gamay grapes that were grown this year, made into wine this year, bottled this year then sold and ideally consumed TODAY! This is proof once again that wine is wonderful.

Photographs of the annual Beaujolais Nouveau day being celebrated at an open air wine spa in Hakone, Japan on Thursday, November 19, 2009.

Petrus, Romane-Conti, Chateau d'Yquem are among the wines coveted by connoisseurs and targeted by counterfeiters.

BY TODD HAEFER There are great beers made in nearly every country in the world, but my experience is that Russia is not one of them.

Marc Denzin and Greg Sperry are pretty sure they have a fool-proof formula for melt-in-your-mouth moist and tender the turkey meat every time.

Nearly sensible dining , the Viennese way VIENNA -- A visit to Vienna I made some years ago turned into a three-day sugar high as I went, like a bee from flower to flower, from one great cafe to another, eating almost nothing but classic Viennese pastries.

Coffee is king at Seven Sisters Coffee House in the Mills 50 district of Orlando.

A unique decanter of whisky that was blended from some of the finest whiskies of the last 140 years has sold at auction for 23,000. The Dalmore Oculus had been expected to fetch between 15,000 and 20,000 at the Bonhams auction in Edinburgh.

What you want: A holiday get-together with friends over a cheering glass of wine.

The company said Tuesday processing at the DeKuyper Cordials plant will be moved to two plants in Frankfort, Ky.

Since so many of them were likely created while under the influence, it seems right to honour the great albums of the arena rock age with their own wines.

A homeless man is facing as long as five years in prison on charges he threw a hot cup of coffee in the face of a Crystal Lake Starbucks worker, scalding her.

Beer and coffee don't seem like a good mix, but that's the idea behind alcoholic energy drinks.

Sino Agro Food, Inc. , an emerging integrated, diversified agriculture technology and organic food company with subsidiaries operating in China, is pleased to announce it has begun retail trials of its "Green and Natural" dairy products.

A hospital consultant has been jailed for six years for trying to poison his pregnant lover to bring on an abortion.

People with heart disease and similar conditions who don't have enough vitamin D are more likely to be depressed than their counterparts with adequate levels of the "sunshine vitamin," according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando.