Newsletter

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: Here’s wishing everyone a great Thanksgiving holiday! This week will be business as usual at the Old Town Wine Cellar, with the predictable exception that the Cellar will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday November 25th. We will be open Friday and Saturday as usual, so be sure to make…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: We’re officially halfway through November now, which means you’re going to have to start getting serious about preparing for the Thanksgiving holiday next week. After a few forays to the grocery stores of late, I notice some of the shelves are getting a little bit bare. But when it comes…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: The North End Art Walk is back! This Friday evening, November 12th from 5 to 9PM, the Art Walk brings another fun and eclectic celebration of local artists to Main Street. An evening of art, music and culture in our great Historic Downtown setting, the Art Walk is a sidewalk-style…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: November has arrived! It’s a great time to be outside here in Yuma, and the Historic Downtown area has so many options to offer for those who want to enjoy our beautiful Fall weather (as so much of the rest of the country is starting to shiver). The Main Street…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: October is rushing by pretty quickly as the Fall season in Yuma gathers momentum – Halloween will be upon us by the end of this week. I do see one upcoming Downtown event that looks like it could be a lot of fun to get you in the Halloween spirit.…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: I want to let everyone know about a great new addition to the downtown Yuma scene. My good friend Mario Ghedin has opened an Italian deli restaurant here in Yuma, located in the Colorado River State Historic Park (201 N. 4th Avenue). Mario hails from Treviso, Italy, not far from…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: After seeing last week’s Newsletter discussing the ongoing harvest in the U.S., a few readers asked me, what about Europe? Well, the answer is, it was a pretty tough year in a lot of places. One article I saw recently stated, “After an awful year, a small but mighty vintage…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: As we move deeper into October, I’m happy to report that the wine grape harvest in California is mostly complete and generally considered to be highly successful, a welcome change from last year’s disastrous harvest season, particularly in Napa Valley. Last year’s wild fires in California wreaked havoc on the…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: It’s finally October. Or at least it will be Friday. The weather here in Yuma is getting decidedly more pleasant by the day, and especially evenings are getting downright mellow. It’s a perfect excuse to come down to Historic Downtown on a pleasant early fall late afternoon or evening and…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: This weekend brings Yuma’s 10th annual Tacos & Tunes Music Festival Friday, September 24th and Saturday, September 25th at Desert Sun Stadium, presented by Los Caballeros de Yuma. Which is great news, but I especially want to let everyone know about the Tacos & Tunes Pre-Party here in Historic Downtown…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: This Saturday, September 18th is National Clean-Up Day! In fact, the event is observed globally as World Clean-Up Day in more than 180 countries with millions of participants. ‍This world-changing idea began in the small northern European country of Estonia in 2008. Over 50,000 people united to clean up the…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: The City of Yuma isn’t letting a global pandemic slow its rock ‘n’ roll enthusiasm; nor will it prevent the Yuma Art Center from embracing local artists, including musicians. This Friday and Saturday, September 10th & 11th, get ready for the Yuma Rocks Music Fest here in Historic Downtown, presented…