03/12/2024 Newsletter
Greetings from the Wine Cellar:
St. Patrick’s Day is one of my favorite holidays and I am incredibly happy to let you know that the Old Town Wine Cellar is one of the stops for the St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl this year. The event happens March 16th in Historic Downtown Yuma. Sign up at the Pint House Bar and Grill beginning at 3PM with the remaining stops on the crawl being Old Town Wine Cellar (Yours Truly ), Prison Hill Brewing Co., Da Boyz Italian Cuisine, Red’s Birdcage Saloon, The Kress Ultra Lounge, Holy Smokes, Lutes Casino, The Alement, Cafecito, Eduardo’s Mexican Food, and finishes up at Jimmie Dee’s where the first 100 people to finish get a free t-Shirt. Hope you enjoy the St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl and remember to drink responsibly as you support each of the locations.
Hope to see you this at the Old Town Wine Cellar to try our Featured Wines of the Week and be sure to stop in on Saturday to get your St. Patrick’s Day passport stamped.
FEATURED WINES THIS WEEK
(Sample all five featured wines for $15 or by the Glass)
Mar de Frades Albariño 2022 (Rias Baixas, Spain) $23.99
Mar de Frades stands out for its radiant lemon color with seaweed reflections. Its luminous appearance invites you to perceive aromas of stone fruits, like apricot, medlar fruit, along with almond flowers and subtle tropical salt notes. All the expressions of Albariño. A wine of saline character, which seduces for its freshness and complexity.
($10 by the glass)
A to Z Wineworks Essence Pinot Noir 2018 (Oregon) $24.99
This is a charming Oregon wine with a generous amount of fruit on the nose and palate; with bruised raspberries, fresh strawberries, cranberry, cherries, and plums all showing up. Balanced and complex with both savory and sweet flavors. This wine presents spice notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, sandalwood, and mint, floral notes of rose petals and peony, earth notes of fresh loam, truffle, and dusty oak. Marshmallow, mocha, chocolate, cherry vanilla chew, fruit leather and candy.
($10 by the glass)
Bodegas Iranzon 2021 Spartico (Utiel-Requena, Spain) $15.99
The Spartico is a blend of Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon from a certified organic vineyard. The wine is un-oaked and truly delivers the pure expression of the grapes, without the use of any additives including sulfites. Fruit-filled and juicy, this offers a soft mouthfeel, but with plenty of tannic grip.
($10 by the glass)
Dave Phinney Locations CA (California) $19.99
Locations is a blend of fruit sourced from diverse California regions, including Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, and the Sierra Foothills. A blend of Tempranillo, Barbera, Petite Sirah, Syrah, and Grenache, it has intensely ripe dark fruit flavors plus a pleasant touch of toasty oak.
($10 by the glass)
Argiano Non Confunditur Toscana Rosso 2021 (Tuscany, Italy) $23.99
This Tuscan is a unique blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Sangiovese with fruity notes and a touch of oak on the nose. The juicy, medium-bodied palate is coated with fine, even tannins. Good, medium-long finish to close with a peppery edge at the end.
($10 by the glass)
CORAVIN® BY THE GLASS OPTIONS
Beaulieu Vineyard 2019 Georges de Latour Private Reserve (Napa Valley, California) $155.99/Bottle
Wow! The aromas to this are really exceptional, with a tangerine edge to the blackcurrants, graphite, lead pencil, flowers and wet earth. It changes all the time. So expressive and refined. Full-bodied with great intensity and depth of fruit. The ultra-fine tannins display millions of layers. The texture on the palate is superb and lasts for minutes. This is the new 1974 George de Latour, which was a legend. Real Napa Valley red here. Drinkable now, to understand it, but truly great in five to six years and onwards.
($32 per glass)
Col Solare Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 (Columbia Valley, Washington) $145.99/Bottle
A study in refinement and elegance, fruit takes a back seat to floral, savory and mineral elements in the wine’s aromatics of violet, lavender, sage and subtle black currant. The palate is a velvety mouth-feel and slowly reveals dark-fruit character as it progresses, which lasts long on the palate. This wine will soften with some time.
($30 per glass)
Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 (Alexander Valley, California) $104.99/Bottle
The 2019 Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon has notes of red cherry, raspberry, blackberry, iris, vanilla, and clove. Ruby in color, this elegant wine has great acidity and lift on the mid-palate. Black currant and warm baking spices linger with a deep and fruity finish. It will provide drinking pleasure through 2047 given proper cellaring. Blend: 95.2% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2.5% Cabernet Franc, 1.9% Merlot, 0.4% Petit Verdot.
($25 per glass)
JUSTIN 2019 Isosceles (Paso Robles, California) $89.99/Bottle
Isosceles presents with 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.
($22 per glass)
DAOU Reserve 2020 Seventeen Forty (Paso Robles, California) $78.99/Bottle
Inspired by the classics of Saint-Émilion, the 2020 DAOU Reserve Seventeen Forty is a Cabernet Franc driven wine with a harmonious complement of Merlot. Beguiling aromas of blackberry cobbler, raspberry, crème de cassis and cherry pipe tobacco anticipate hints of toasty oak, black licorice and pencil shaving. Lush and full bodied, this wine bestows rich flavors of cherry, black plum, dark chocolate and blueberry compote with lovely accents of Zante currant, graphite and cinnamon. Solid structure and fine-grained tannins support a lengthy, focused finish, leaving notes of plum and boysenberry underscored by cocoa and black truffle.
($20 per glass)
Zenato 2017 Amarone Classico (Veneto, Italy) $74.99/Bottle
Dense and concentrated, yet still beautifully balanced and well-integrated, this is classic Amarone. Lush aromas of plums, dates and toasted oak greet the nose. It’s rich and full on the palate with layers of ripe, raisiny fruit and super-silky tannins to give it grip on the lengthy finish. A truly elegant, stylish wine.
($15 per glass)
NEW ARRIVALS
Banfi Brunello di Montalcino 2016 (Tuscany, Italy) $82.99
A rich and elegant Brunello, both in structure and in olfactory expression. Brilliant ruby red with garnet-colored reflections, on the nose the aroma is sweet and fruity, the hints of fresh red fruit stand out, which combine perfectly with the more complex notes of licorice and pipe tobacco. The structure is powerful, and the palate is pleasantly enveloped by a consistent tannic texture, well balanced by a pleasant acidity. Extremely persistent with excellent aging potential.
Tombstone Brewing Co. Irish Red Ale (Tombstone, Arizona) $5.99
Pours a deep reddish color with a small light tan head. Aroma is nice smooth toasted malt notes with some fruity notes. This easy-drinking red is malty and delicately roasty with a clean, dry finish.
Left Coast Brewing Co. Asylum Belgian Style Tripel Ale (San Clemente, California) $5.99
Asylum is in the style of a Belgian Tripel. It has a beautiful golden color. Its relatively light body is deceiving for a beer of its character. It has a sweet and spicy, complex fruity aroma and flavor derived from our distinct Belgian yeast strain. Asylum finishes with a subtle, warming character to help you relax on any night. Asylum is an exceptionally smooth Belgian-style brew.
Cheers!
Kim Maloney
Old Town Wine Cellar
265 S. Main Street, Suite E
Yuma, Arizona 85364
928-373-0405
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