Cactus Cantina in Manayunk has a bunch of new deals that are worth a look-see.

Sundays

• 1/2 price Sangria all day

Mondays

• $10 64oz margarita pitchers
• $3 Magic Hat #9
• $8.95Fajitas

Tuesdays

• $2 Tacos
• $5 Margaritas
• $3Hoegaarden

Wednesdays

• $12 select bottles of wine
• Entire wine list is 50% off

Cactus Cantina [Official Site]

Do you like free wine? Then today’s your lucky day as Sofitel is celebrating the release of Beaujolais Nouveau from 5 to 7pm with a free wine tasting.

Afterwards take your grape-stained teeth up the block to Tria Cafe and enjoy $4 glasses of Domaine Dupueble Beaujolais Nouveau 2008 all night long.

2008 Beaujolais Nouveau [Georges Duboeuf]
Tria Cafe [Official Site]

Philadelphia Weekly’s Field Guide lists six Philadelphia wine bars worth visiting.

Wine of the Times [Philadelphia Weekly]

Moore Brothers New Jersey location will be hosting a wine tasting from noon to 5pm this Saturday, featuring the wines of Domain Les Pas de l’Escalette.

Julien Zernot and his wife Delphine Rousseau will be a the store showing off their wines from the South of France.

Moore Brothers [Official Site]

On Wednesday, October 22nd, Friday Saturday Sunday will offer a 5 course menu paired with wine. The cost is $75 per person plus tax and gratuity. Matthew Esser, from Shiffrin Selections and Friday Saturday Sunday’s Weaver Lilley, will be pouring and chatting with diners about the selected wines.

Dinner is served from 5:30 to 10:30. Menu after the jump.

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It’s Wine Week on Rittenhouse Row. What does that mean? Well participating Center City restaurants are offering deals including specially priced glasses, global flights and wine dinners of 3 courses and 3 glasses.

Check out the Philadelphia Magazine for complete details.

Update: Phoodie.info goes the extra mile and highlights the best bets for the week and who would have guessed, Le Bec-Fin Parc comes up with the deal of the week.

Philly Wine Week 2008 [Philadelphia Magazine]
Philly Wine Week: Collin’s Picks [Phoodie.info]

Friday night wine tastings are back at Savona. Join Savona’s sommelier, Melissa Monosoff as she teaches visitors how to taste wine like a pro. Cost is $25 and includes six wines and hors d’oeurveres.

Savona [Official Site]

The former Valentino on the Square is being remade as Di Vino Wine Bar, a modern Mediterranean wine bar with “unimaginable” wines by the glass.

Menu after the jump, it ain’t cheap.

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Rick Nichols details the rise/fall and changes of Manayunk and its newest eatery, Cooper’s Brick Oven Wine Bar and while doing so, he draws the ire of Jack Curtin.

Perhaps demographics will be destiny: Cooper posits that the $100,000 rowhouses that were converted into apartments for college kids five years ago are climbing in value and becoming owner-occupied; and that, regardless, the 21-year-olds of that era are now 24, 25 and 26, more grown up themselves - with better jobs, broader tastes, and a bit more income.

In other words, they’re ripe to join the adults at Cooper’s Brick Oven Wine Bar. He spotted four of them the other day, sharing a $35 bottle of malbec and a cheese plate at one of his sidewalk tables.

They were still watching the girls go by. But in a watershed moment, Cooper noticed what they weren’t doing; they weren’t drinking beer.

Jack is peeved by the allusion that beer is for “lowlifes” and wine, well that’s a sign of sophistication.

What do you think? Rightful indignation or over-reacting?

Little sister for Jake’s [Philadelphia Inquirer]
This is pretty sad [Liquid Diet]
Cooper’s Brick Oven Wine Bar [Official Site]

Rum Bar is making room for a new South American wine list so through Labor Day they are offering all bottles in stock for half-off. So stop in and help the Rum Bar make some room while you get a deal.

Rum Bar [Official Site]