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Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   If you can’t make it to the Wine Cellar’s weekly wine tasting this Tuesday through Friday, you’ll have another opportunity this week to taste some great wines: Saturday evening, April 23rd, the Foothills Optimist Club will host a Wine Tasting Fundraiser on the grounds of the Sanguinetti House Museum…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This Saturday, April 16th from 4 to 9PM, the Main Street Plaza and the Yuma Art Center in Historic Downtown will be the scene of ARTbeat 9, the annual juried art show and sale sponsored by the City of Yuma Parks, Art & Recreation Commission.  ARTbeat is an eclectic…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   The pace is slowing just a bit here in Yuma, post-Fair Week and heading into April. But we still have several months worth of beautiful days to enjoy before our notorious summer weather finally kicks in.  Historic Downtown Yuma is a great place to enjoy a mellow spring afternoon…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   I want to alert everyone to a temporary change in business hours here at the Old Town Wine Cellar that will be in effect next week only, from Tuesday, March 29th through Friday, April 1st.  The Wine Cellar will be open from 1 PM to 7 PM, rather than…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This Saturday, March 26th, Yuma Heritage Festivals presents the 5th Annual Music on Main festival.  The music starts at 9AM and goes all day until 11PM, with performances by renowned local bands Tommy & The Drifters, Checkr’d Past, Tanner Gomes Band, DJ Money and others. There will be lots of…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   St. Patrick’s Day week here in Historic Downtown Yuma offers a couple of interesting events. On the actual day, Thursday March 17, the Yuma Territorial Prison State Park will be the scene of a St. Patrick’s Day “Riotous” Event, beginning at 4:30PM and continuing until 10PM.  There will be…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This coming Saturday, March 12th, the Yuma Area Art Educators Association hosts their annual art auction at the Yuma Art Center in Historic Downtown (254 S. Main Street).  Everyone is welcome and invited to attend, as a number of professional artworks created and donated by local artists will be…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This weekend in our beautiful Yuma winter season brings Midnite at the Oasis, a fantastic event in its own right, but there are plenty of reasons to head down to Historic Downtown as well.   A playbill for a Friday night show at the Historic Yuma Theatre caught my eye…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This week brings us Lettuce Days, certainly one of the premier events of Yuma’s winter season.  But another event taking place here in Historic Downtown is certainly worth a mention.  On Sunday, February 28th at 2PM, the Celtic group Teada (“tay’dah”), a leading exponent of Irish music on the…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   A couple of quick notes for this week:  The Wine Cellar will offer another of our Saturday Afternoon Beer Tastings this coming Saturday, February 20th.  It’s been a while since we had one, and there sure seems to be some pent-up demand judging from how many requests I’ve gotten…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This coming Sunday, February 14th is Valentine’s Day.  As I’ve been saying for all these years, a nice bottle of sparkling wine, sweet wine or whatever other type of wine your sweetheart likes most makes the perfect Valentine’s Day gift.  And it’s something you both can share!  We have…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   Fort Yuma Rotary Club’s 2016 Mardi Gras on Main Block Party takes place Friday, February 5th on the Main Street Plaza right here in Historic Downtown.  The party goes from 5 to 11 PM, with live music and lots of other activities, plus plenty of food and beverage options.…