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Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This Friday and Saturday, February 22nd-23rd, the inaugural Yuma BBQ & Brew Festival will be celebrated right here in Historic Downtown Yuma.  The festival will pack Main Street with mouthwatering BBQ, a country music concert both evenings, mechanical bull-riding, outdoor yard games, a kids’ corner featuring new attractions, dozens…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This Saturday, February 16th, the City of Yuma and Robb Bower Presents invite everyone to Yuma’s 5th Annual Boogie, Brews and Blues Festival.  The show goes from 11AM – 7PM at Gateway Park right next to Historic Downtown.  Performers include The Dennis Jones Band, The Avey Grouws Band, McCoy…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This Friday evening, February 8th, brings the annual Mardi Gras Block Party on the Main Street Plaza right here in Historic Downtown, courtesy of Fort Yuma Rotary.  It’s always a great party; this one starts off at 5PM and keeps rocking ‘til 11 PM, with live music and lots…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   Our winter season weather has settled down as of late into the pleasant mellow days that we expect this time of year, and this weekend will present a great opportunity to take advantage of it. This coming Friday, February 2nd, the City of Yuma is offering the chance to…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This Saturday, January 26th, the 2019 Medjool Date Festival will take place right here in Historic Downtown from 10AM to 6PM on the Main Street Plaza, presented by Yuma Heritage Festivals and Bard Valley Medjool Date Growers.  Yuma and nearby Bard Valley are among the world’s leading producers of…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   With the winter ag season in full swing here in the Yuma area, I wanted to help spread the word that the Yuma Visitors Center, in conjunction with local growers, are presenting another series of “Field to Feast” tours.    You can find out, “What’s growing in all those green…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This coming Saturday, January 12th, the Yuma Art Center will present their annual Art in the Park event.  It’s an ‘al fresco’ Fine Arts Festival that will take place in Yuma’s scenic Gateway Park adjacent to Historic Downtown from noon to 5PM Saturday afternoon.  The festival will feature a…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   Welcome to 2019!  The festivities of the new year have left me a bit behind schedule this week, but I want to let everyone know if they haven’t heard already that this first week of January will bring us the inaugural Yuma Bird, Nature & History Festival.  With dozens of…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   A new tradition begins!  Next Monday, December 31, 2018, an Iceberg will be dropped in Yuma’s Historic Downtown as part of an inaugural Yuma New Year’s Eve celebration.  The Iceberg will actually be a giant, fabricated head of iceberg lettuce (8’x 8’), brightly illuminated from the inside.  A large countdown…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   As we hit the stretch run to Christmas, just a quick note to everyone regarding the holiday schedule for the Old Town Wine Cellar.  Truth is, there’s not much of a change this year.  The Cellar will be open all this week thru Saturday, December 22nd, then be closed…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   Holiday update:  there are just two weeks worth of shopping days left before the arrival of Christmas!  Wine (as well as great craft and imported beers & ales) makes a perfect, and very easy gift, so be sure to stop by the Old Town Wine Cellar before it’s too…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This Saturday, December 8th will bring the highlight of Historic Downtown Yuma’s 2018 Christmas season – the 16th Annual Dorothy Young Memorial Electric Light Parade.  The special theme of this year’s parade will be “Celebrating Yuma Agriculture.” The parade will start off at 6PM in the vicinity of 9th…