Like choosing a prom date, choosing a favorite wine necessitates sampling a variety to determine which one will produce the nicest bouquet. Enjoy the fruits of competitive courting with today’s Groupon at Cypress Bend Vineyards in Wagram. Choose from the following options:

• For $38, you get a wine-tasting outing for two (a $86.25 total value).
• For $59, you get a wine-tasting outing for four (a $172.50 total value).
• For $73, you get a wine-tasting outing for six (a $258.75 total value). <p>

Each outing includes the following: * A VIP winemaker winery tour (a $25 value/person) * A wine tasting (a $5 value/person) * Cypress Bend Vineyard logo wineglass (a $2 value/person) * Cheese and crackers (a $10.25 value/couple) * Bottle of Cypress Bend Vineyards award-winning muscadine wine per couple (a $12 value/couple) <p>

Groupons may be redeemed with a reservation any weekday between Wednesday, February 1, and Monday, April 30. Saturday appointments are available on February 18, March 10, and April 21.

Since 2005, the award-winning Cypress Bend Vineyards has harnessed the rich flavors and antioxidants found in the muscadine grape, fashioning 11 muscadine table wines and one after-dinner muscadine varietal. The vineyards’ winemaker leads tours through the vineyards while detailing each step of the wine-making process, from grape plucking and fermentation to monitoring each grape’s 401K as it ages. Subsequent tastings combine Cypress Bend Vineyards wines with a copious cheese-and-cracker selection, which patrons can savor in an indoor tasting room or a sprawling outdoor patio dotted with umbrella-topped tables and sporting birds eye views of the vast vineyards below. After collecting their souvenir wineglasses and a bottle of muscadine wine, guests can resume their tasting at home or rent Cypress Bend Vineyard’s squad of chauffeur ants to transport them to the nearest picnic.