This Saturday from 5:30-9 p.m., bring your friends and family to the Vintage Oaks Amenity Center for an evening with the neighbors! Join us for a catered barbecue dinner, beer/wine and a S'mores bar -- while basking in the warmth of our new fire pits. Live music will be provided by the Texas Twisters, featuring great hits in classic rock and country. So bring a lawn chair and your dancing shoes!

If you’re not familiar with the world of wine, perhaps you didn’t realize that each type of wine is best served in a particular style of glass. Finer wine glasses are very thin, whether made of crystal or some other material, because thicker densities can actually work against the flavors and negatively influence the taste. While each wine glass sports a tulip-shaped design, and each has a base, a stem, and a “bowl” (the main body), their shapes are otherwise very different, each one customized to help you enjoy varying wines to the fullest.

1. Red wine glasses: Bordeaux. All reds require a taller, wider glass, to allow the complexities in the wine sufficient room to blend with each other. Many flavors are present in every glass of wine, not just flavor from the grapes. There’s the container in which it was fermented, the season of the harvest, the quality of the soil, and even the type of yeast used (to name just a few). Each flavor floats there, and swirling the glass gently with appropriate space allows them to blend favorably. A Bordeaux glass is ideal for rich, red wines, such as Cabernets and Merlots. A Bordeaux glass’s bowl is wide, allowing room for the wine to breathe, and to make the rich aroma part of your experience as you drink.