... A visit to the wineries also means getting to see how the wine is made, if you're interested, and in some cases getting to chat with the people who made it. Cowie Wine Cellars outside Paris, AR includes the Arkansas Historic Wine Museum, created and maintained by winery owner Bob Cowie, as well as Cowie's collection of more than one hundred church bells and the small private chapel he's building. And then of course there's Cowie himself, who's as gruff and full of stories as you'd expect a seventy-year-old Irish Catholic winemaker from Arkansas to be, and his wines--the award-winning Robert's Port and the Arkansas Queen, a dry cynthiana wine--are alone worth the extra road time...

Note: excerpt from Arkansas Life Magazine, October 2011 ed. Visit www.arkansaslife.com for more information.