Newsletter

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: It’s gotten kind of hot here in the Desert Southwest, and it’s heading higher (117 degrees by early next week? Ouch!!) It seems like a good time to get the inner tubes inflated for a leisurely ride down the cool Colorado River here in Yuma. And as much as I…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: It’s Memorial Day! Hopefully everyone is enjoying the long weekend, whether they’re spending it in town or out. It’s a great occasion to be with family and friends, enjoying our sunny early summer weather. But I sincerely hope everyone will also take a few moments to reflect on what the…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: Memorial Day Weekend arrives at the end of this week, so for all intents and purposes summer is well and truly here. While a lot of folks head out of town for the holiday weekend, plenty of others like myself will stay around town, and (finally!) get together with friends…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: Following up on last week’s Newsletter extolling the virtues of white and rosé wines to help ease our transition to the inevitable scorching heat of a Yuma summer (one of which will be making its presence felt soon enough), I thought I’d take this opportunity to put in a plug…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: The weather is getting pretty warm lately… Face it, summer is closing in on us, and Yuma’s frequently rather extreme hot weather will become a fact of life over the next several months. Wine can’t solve hot weather, but it can hopefully make it a bit more bearable once the…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: Welcome to May! This first week of May will once again bring us First Friday in Historic Downtown, with most stores remaining open until 8PM or later. That means some of our unique downtown specialty retail stores will still be open to explore, as well as our numerous downtown Yuma…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: This week’s Wine Cellar Newsletter musings: Natural wines. I hear more and more of sort of an underground buzz these days about so-called “natural wines.” I don’t think there is an official agreed-upon definition, but the consensus seems to be that they’re wines from small, even artisan producers that feature…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: Updates from the world of wine: I saw some depressing news last week. The headline read: “French winemakers face devastation after experiencing the worst weather in 30 years.” The article went on to report that an unusually severe frost in early April caused extensive damage to vineyards all across the…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: Hardly a day goes by that someone doesn’t walk in and ask “when do you do wine tastings in the Cellar?” or I get a call from someone asking if they will need to make a reservation to come in and sample our wines of the week. The answers are…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: This Wednesday, April 7^th is National Beer Day. It’s a day to recognize and celebrate the world’s most widely consumed alcoholic beverage (and following water and tea, the third most popular drink overall). Beer is one of the world’s oldest prepared beverages, dating back possibly as far as 9,500 B.C.,…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: In line with Governor Ducey’s new executive order issued last week that removed the facemask mandate and business occupancy restrictions in Arizona that have been in force since last summer, I just want to let everyone know that the Wine Cellar will no longer require patrons to wear a mask…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: Spring is officially here by the calendar, although we Yumans know it really got here some time ago. But unfortunately, that does mean some winter season events are sadly coming to an end. Case in point: the 224 Downtown Market. The 224 shops (at 224 Main Street of course) have…