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(Newser) - Food & Wine magazine names its favorite new restaurant wine lists from around the country.

1. Catalan, Houston, TX
2. Addison, San Diego, CA
3. Perbacco, San Francisco, CA
4. Craftsteak, New York, NY
5. Osteria di Tramonto, Wheeling, IL

(Newser) - In selecting these sites, Food & Wine considered ease of use, customer service, price tag and, most important, selection of wines—that is, range of choices. The picks range from megasites to quirkier, more esoteric ones.

1. Appellation America (www.appellationamerica.com)
2. Avalon Wine (www.avalonwine.com)
3. Bounty Hunter Rare Wine

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(Newser) - The American middle class has become connoisseurs of everything—coffee, '80s Japanese garage-rock bands, environmentalist toilet paper, and now wine, writes Slate's Field Maloney. Fermented grape juice doubled its audience in the past decade, while consumption of lower-brow beer stagnated. And for the first time in history, Americans pollees prefer...

(Newser) - Score a victory for the nightcap: Booze may help halt dementia in the elderly, a new study suggests. The Italian research, published in the journal Neurology, concludes that a one-drink-a-day habit can slow the progression of dementia by 85% in those in people 65 and older who already show mild...