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Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This Saturday, November 15th, the Medjool Date Festival will take place right here in Historic Downtown on the Main Street Plaza from 9 AM to 5 PM.  It’s our annual celebration of “food, fun, family and all things dates!” presented by Yuma Heritage Festivals and Bard Valley Medjool Date…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   As it cools down dramatically in Yuma, things are heating up here in Historic Downtown!  This Saturday, November 8th, the Yuma Art Center and Yuma Parks & Rec present the 21st Annual Children’s Festival of the Arts on the Main Street Plaza.  It’s a great event for kids and…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   Halloween week has plenty to offer for both kids and adults here in Historic Downtown.  For kids 12 & under, the 5th Annual Scary & Safe Trick or Treat takes place Halloween night on Friday, October 31st from 5:30 to 8:00 PM at the Yuma Territorial Prison Park.  The…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   As our glorious Fall weather just keeps getting better and better, the events focus is definitely shifting to the Great Outdoors.  For example, this Saturday, October 25th we have the 27th Annual Yuma Catfish Rodeo and 6th Annual Nature Fair over at the West Wetlands Park, just a short…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   As the Fall season gets underway and the weather just keeps getting better and better, you should definitely make time to venture down to Historic Downtown Yuma and take a stroll on Main Street – there’s a lot of new stuff around here!  Especially when it comes to retail…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This coming Saturday, October 11th, the Old Town Wine Cellar will present another Saturday Afternoon Beer Tasting.  The tasting fee is just $5, and all of the beers will be available by the glass as well.  We’ll go from noon to 5 PM, so make your way down to…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   There’s not much to report this week as we seem to have finally reached the tipping point and are now on the brink of another beautiful Yuma Fall season.  It’s all the more reason to come down and take an early evening stroll around Historic Downtown – you can…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   We instituted a Wine Cellar policy change earlier this year to offer wine tasting every day Tuesday thru Friday, rather than just on Thursday & Friday as we’d always done previously.  I think it’s been well-received, but unfortunately not a week goes by that someone doesn’t ask me:  “so…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   Fall is almost officially here!  To celebrate, you might want to check out the 8th Annual Hip Hop Dance Festival & Show happening at the Historic Yuma Theatre this Saturday, September 20th at 7:00 PM.  The show is presented by Jazz of Yuma, with Yuma’s own Tricia Miranda joined…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   In honor of Oktoberfest kicking off this week in Munich, Bavaria (I made it there last year and I can tell you it’s one seriously good time), the Old Town Wine Cellar will try to bring some of that Oktoberfest spirit to Yuma with another of our Saturday Beer…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   Welcome to September everyone! One great way to celebrate our post-Labor Day status is to take in a cult classic here in Historic Downtown Yuma.  You can do exactly that on Friday, September 5th when the Yuma Art Center and NexGen, Yuma’s Young Professionals Organization, present the 4th Annual…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   Just a quick note this week as we head into Labor Day weekend 2014:  The Wine Cellar will be closing a bit early this Saturday, August 30th to enable a quick getaway for the holiday weekend.  We will of course be here our normal open hours Tuesday through Friday,…