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Greetings from the Wine Cellar: Lettuce Days!  This weekend brings the annual celebration of Yuma’s preeminence in the world of winter vegetables, and the festival has been getting bigger and better every year.  This year’s extravaganza takes place at the Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park on the Yuma Riverfront Saturday & Sunday, March 9th…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: This weekend is pretty much all about Midnight at the Oasis; it’s a great annual event here in Yuma and I certainly intend to make it over there this weekend before the festivities come to a close.  But after they do there’s still more great entertainment to be had, right…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: This Friday and Saturday, February 22nd & 23rd, Old Town Yuma will be the scene of the 34th Annual Yuma Art Symposium.  It’s a “total immersion art weekend” with exhibitions and workshops by internationally recognized and emerging visual artists with a range of expertise in media such as metals, clay,…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: The first and foremost thing to talk about this week is of course, Valentine’s Day.  It’s arriving Thursday, and if you’re like me you generally wait to the last minute to pick up something nice for your significant other.  I’m not here to say it’s the only thing, but a…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: The 2nd Annual Redondo Days and Yuma Crossing Days takes place Saturday, February 9th at 240 Madison Avenue here in Old Town (one block west of Main Street) in front of the Sanguinetti House Museum.  Ensuring that Yuma’s fascinating history lives on is the mission of this event.  It’s a…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: February is almost upon us, which here in Old Town means it’s time to get medieval!  I’m talking about the annual Two Rivers Renaissance Faire that will be happening at West Wetlands Park this weekend, just a short distance west of downtown along the Colorado River.  The Faire will take place…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This Friday, January 25th, the Yuma Art Center and ELS Properties 2013 Concert Series presents Jay and the Americans in concert at the Historic Yuma Theatre (254 S. Main St.)  They’re a real blast from the past for me; when I was nine or ten I thought the song…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: Winter sure has arrived in Yuma!  As I write this it’s a brisk 52 degrees here in the Wine Cellar – a little more like refrigerator temperature than cellar temperature.  But the wine will endure just fine, and I should as well.  The good news is that winter in Yuma,…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: This Saturday and Sunday, January 12th– 13th, more than a dozen Old West re-enactment groups from as far away as Colorado and Oklahoma will ride into town for a “showdown” at the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park here in Old Town.  The 15th Annual Gathering of the Gunfighters is…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: 2013 is here – I hope everyone had a great New Year’s Eve celebration and an enjoyable New Year’s holiday.  The Wine Cellar will just keep rolling along in 2013 with our end-of-the-week tastings, so make it part of your new year’s resolutions to get down here to Old Town…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: In addition to our regular Thursday & Friday wine tasting this week, the Wine Cellar will hold a special “double” sweet dessert wine and sparkling wine tasting this Saturday, December 22nd.  The Holidays are a prime time for these special wines, which rarely make it onto our regular weekly tasting…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: The Yuma Visitors Bureau’s Christmas Village returns to the Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park here in Old Town on Saturday, Dec. 15th, and the Village will be open all week from 5:00 to 9:00 PM every evening through Saturday the 22nd. Along with lots of festive lights throughout the…