01/23/2025 Newsletter

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:
With only 365 days per year every day of the year offers a wide range of reasons to celebrate. Here are just a few for this week.

January 23
National Pie Day – Preheat your oven or visit your local bakery, grab a slice, and celebrate the simple, delicious pleasures of good pie.

January 24
Beer Can Appreciation Day – Luckily the Old Town Wine Cellar has some excellent beers for you to choose from to celebrate this National Day.

January 25
National Fish Taco Day – Tantalize your taste buds as we celebrate one of the world’s most famous fishy dishes.

And…everyday is Wine Day at the Old Town Wine Cellar so stop in and try our Featured Wines of the Week.

FEATURED WINES THIS WEEK

(Sample all five featured wines for $15 or By the Glass)

Labouré-Roi Macon Villages 2023 (Burgundy, France) $22.99/Bottle

Pale gold with green highlights, brilliant and limpid with loral and fruity aromas and hints of lemon, mint and honeysuckle. Exotic and spicy aromas. A balanced palate, with herbaceous and floral overtones. This wine is light, charming and fresh. It seduces with its spontaneity and tenderness. Perfect with fried smelt tapas, poultry and white meats, snails, grilled tofu, bouchées à la reine, grilled cutlets, white pudding, andouillettes, red peppers in vinaigrette and cheeses (dried goat’s cheese, Bleu de Bresse).
($10 by the glass)

St. Francis 2021 Merlot (Sonoma County, California) $21.99/Bottle

St. Francis Merlot has spicy herb and vanilla overtones, which give way to full strong black fruit on the palate, nuanced with chocolate. It’s a smooth and elegant wine with typical varietal aromas and savory flavors of black cherry and plum, with round generous tannins give it a big finish.
($10 by the glass)

Dave Phinney Locations ES (Spain) $21.99/Bottle

Locations ES was produced with fruit sourced from 5 regions in Span: Priorat, Jumilla, Toro, Rioja, and Ribera del Duero. This wine opens with aromatic notes of tobacco, cigar box, and ripe plum, and leads to an opulent palate of dark berries, earth, hints of spice, and sweet tobacco with a lengthy, luscious finish.
($10 by the glass)

1,000 Stories Zinfandel 2021 (California) $19.99/Bottle

This delicious, savory California Zin opens with scents of blackberries and raspberries, accented by notes of molasses and clove. The rich fruit is enhanced by unmistakable Bourbon whiskey flavors of charred vanilla and caramel, imparted by Bourbon Barrel Aging in barrels previously used by fine Bourbon distillers.
($10 by the glass)

Bonanza Lot 6 Cabernet Sauvignon (California) $19.99/Bottle

Created by Chuck Wagner of Caymus Vineyards, Bonanza Lot 6 is delicious, accessible and enjoyable over a meal. It is made from the bonanza of our great state vineyard sites that hold potential to produce good Cabernet but are often overlooked. Features flavors of luscious fruit, dark chocolate and silky tannins.
($10 by the glass)

CORAVIN® BY THE GLASS OPTIONS

Robert Craig Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 (Napa Valley, California) $136.99/Bottle

The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon (Howell Mountain) is another fabulous wine in this range. Inky dark fruit, lavender, wildflowers, jasmine, spice, crème de cassis and pencil shavings are all beautifully delineated. This deep, potent Howell Mountain Cabernet delivers the goods. 96 – Vinious.
($28 per glass)

Nickel & Nickel State Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 (Yountville, California) $134.99

From the outset, this Napa Valley Cabernet is one powerful, deeply expressive Cabernet with heady black currant, plum, and cedar aromas leading into a big, juicy entry. Layered currant and black cherry flavors are accented by elegant clove notes. Bold, coating tannins support and frame the entire wine, and hints of wet slate add dimension to a dark, brooding finish. 96 – James Suckling, 94 – Wine Spectator
($27 per glass)

Ink Grade 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley, California) $104.99/Bottle

The Ink Grade Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon opens with aromas of fresh cassis, pomegranate, and cocoa with elements of thyme, mint, candied orange peels, nutmeg, cloves, and paprika. The palate is linear throughout with a consistent mid-palate of bright and lifted acidity and well-integrated raw mountain tannins that close in a persistent finish. 94 – James Suckling, 93 – Wine Spectator, 92 – Wine Enthusiast.
($26 per glass)

JUSTIN Isosceles 2019 (Paso Robles, California) $89.99/Bottle

Aromatic notes of ripe blackberry, juicy black plum, and cassis with dried violet, leather, vanilla bean, fresh herbs, camphor, and toasted oak. Full-bodied with baked black cherry pie, fresh mission fig, and black currant on the entry. The midpalate of new leather, fresh wild sage, porcini mushroom, dried black olive, and cedar is carried by balanced freshness and abundant velvety tannins that lead to a long, complex finish of sustained fresh berries, camphor, oak, toasted cinnamon stick, star anise, and dried flowers. 94 – Wine Enthusiast, 94 – Vinious, 92 – James Suckling.
($24 per glass)

DAOU Vineyards Reserve Seventeen Forty 2021 (Paso Robles, California) $79.99/Bottle

Inspired by the classics of Saint-Émilion, DAOU Reserve Seventeen Forty is a Cabernet Franc-driven wine with a harmonious complement of Merlot. An opaque ruby-purple hue sets a tone of depth and concentration. Enchanting aromas of violets, blueberry, dried sage and bay leaf reveal underlying earthen notes of truffle, woodsmoke and charcuterie. The palate entry is juicy and powerful, flooding the mouth with layers of black currant, chocolate, cigar box and toasty oak. Vivid tannins and balanced acidity unfold into a long, structured finish. 94 – Wine Advocate
($20 per glass)

NEW ARRIVALS

Masi Reserva Costasera Amarone Classico 2018 (Veneto, Italy) $99.99/Bottle

Opaque dark red with aromas of intense, super-ripe fruit, cinnamon, and vanilla. On the palate this Amarone is warm and satisfying with flavors of baked fruit, sweet spices, cooked cherries, and cloves. Dry with a long finish.

My Favorite Neighbor MFN Blanc 2021 (San Luis Obispo, California) $59.99/Bottle

The 2021 MFN Blanc Chardonnay is very ripe in style with scents of banana chip, apple pie, jasmine, allspice and brown sugar. The full-bodied palate is packed with ripe, spicy fruits and plenty of refreshing acidity, and it finishes long with a satiny, mouth-coating texture. It’s an old-school style reminiscent of Napa that fans of ripe, oaked Chardonnays will enjoy.

Skyside Pinot Noir 2021(Sonoma Coast, California) $21.99/Bottle

Quite light in the glass, this bottling offers fresh, slightly tart aromas of strawberry and wet slate on the fun nose. The palate picks up more earthy tones of dust and leather, though that tart red-fruit element carries into the finish.

Cheers!

Kim Maloney
Old Town Wine Cellar
265 S. Main Street, Suite E
Yuma, Arizona 85364
928-373-0405