Beer Fest ticket’s don’t go on sale until next week, but you know what they say, “Wine Before Beer, You’re in the Clear!”.  From Angie at the Decatur Arts Alliance…

Tickets go on sale tomorrow for the 10th Annual Decatur Wine Festival is scheduled for Saturday, November 5, 2011 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the historic Old Courthouse Square in Downtown Decatur. Taste more than 350 wines, sample fare from Decatur’s best eateries and enjoy live music from the Gwen Hughes Band and The Shadowboxers. All proceeds from the festival benefit the Decatur Arts Alliance which offers free events to the community each year. Attendees must be 21 or over. For event info, please visit www.decaturwinefestival.com

Get your tickets HERE.

Prior to tomorrow’s Decatur Wine Festival, the Decatur Arts Alliance is holding an Artwalk this evening from 5p-10p around Decatur, much like the one prior to the Decatur Arts Festival (except the weather is slightly cooler and the leaves on the trees are a bit more colorful).

The details and a map of participating locations can be found in this lovely PDF.

The Decatur Arts Alliance’s Angie Macon writes in…

There are no more tickets available online for the Decatur Wine Festival.  There are a limited number of printed tickets still available at Decatur Package Store.  Please advise folks to call Herb before they make the trip to make sure there are tickets left.  Decatur Package phone number is (404) 633-5250.

Already have your tickets?  Good for you!  You can view event details, including the wine list, over on the Decatur Wine Festival website.

The list of the multitude of wines that will be at this year’s Decatur Wine Festival is now online (in PDF)!

It looks like there will be 50 tables at this year’s event, with I’d say an average of 10 wines at a table.  For those of you a bit skittish about trying 500 wines in a single afternoon, the list also highlights the “must try” wines at each table.

The theme of this year’s festival is “organic”, so you’ll see a wide variety of offerings with an (O) next to them, indicating that extra bit of “fest cred”.

h/t: DaveKell

As you may already know, each year the Decatur Wine Festival hosts a number of area restaurants who provide free food at the event for hungry wine tasters.  (If you’ve yet to purchase your tickets, you can still do so HERE)

Well this year, our friend Parker Cross has volunteered to recruit the dozen or so restaurants who will attend the November 6th festival and she’d love our help!

So she’s asking everyone out in the Decatur Metro ether to nominate their favorite area restaurants in the comments section of this post, and she will do her darnedest to get them in a booth at the Festival!