Due to the fire that occurred on Monday, February 4th, we will be temporarily relocating to the “wine cellar” in our current Echo Plaza – you will need to drive a bit further and seek us out – take the south drive down behind the building and we are located towards the north end underneath CVS Pharmacy – the temporary address is W63 N134 Washington Avenue.

We should be able to serve our first glasses (well plastic cups) of wine starting Friday evening February 22nd at 5:00!  Come join us – we miss you all!!!  We may not have all of your favorite selections at that time, but will continue adding to our stock in the days ahead.

The Spanish Wine Tasting that was scheduled for Monday, February 25th has been postponed.  We will let you know when we reschedule this fabulous event!

For now these will be our hours – Friday, February 22nd 5:00 – 9:00; Saturday, February 23rd 12:00 – 9:00; Sunday, February 24th – Closed; Monday, February 25th – Closed; Tuesday, February 26th 12:00 – 8:00; Wednesday, February 27th 12:00 – 8:00; Thursday, February 28th 12:00 – 8:00; Friday, March 1st 12:00 – 9:00; Saturday, March 2nd 12:00 – 9:00

Also, mark your calendar for Sunday, March 3rd from 2:00 – 6:00 pm – Ozaukee Cares will be having a benefit fundraiser at the Bridge Inn in Grafton, featuring Alex Wilson Band and Katz Sass!

As you may have heard, Grapes and Tastes was damaged during the fire that occurred at Rich’s Restaurant next door to us.  The fire was called in at 10:20 pm Monday, February 4th.  I was on the scene shortly after 11:00 pm and stayed until it was safe for us to go into our businesses to access the damage.  I was interviewed on Fox 6 at about 4:30 in the morning on Tuesday.

It appears that we will need to be closed at least through the end of February.  We want to thank all of the firefighters who worked so hard in the cold to keep the damage at a minimum – Cedarburg, Grafton, Thiensville, Mequon, Port Washington, Saukville, North Shore, Jackson, Fredonia, Waubeka, Newburg and Slinger.  We want to thank the reconstruction crew from Paul Davis in their assistance with the process of getting everything back to normal.  We will sadly miss all of our dear customers at Grapes and Tastes during this time, but cannot wait to have everyone back when we are up and running again.

Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to Jim Joyce and all of the staff at Rich’s Restaurant.  The fire has just been devastating to them and all of their customers “family”.  The customers will deeply miss the good hot meals and family that they had at Rich’s.  Hopefully, we will all be back up and running in the near future!

You can come see us at several outside events that we have lined up:

Grafton’s Cool Blue Winter Frolics will be held on Saturday, February 9th and we will be there selling mulled wine to keep everyone warm.  There are a lot of fun events scheduled at the Winter Frolics including musher dogs.  See the link below for more information:

http://graftonchamber.chambermaster.com/directory/jsp/events/EventPage.jsp?ccid=412&eventid=2079&qs=ccid=412%7Cvisibility=2%7Ccontext=all

Tuesday, February 12th we will have a wine tasting at Mrs. Spyder’s Biker Patch located at 109 S. Park Street in Port Washington for the Port Washington KISS of Indulgence Ladies Night Out from 4:00 – 8:00.  For more information you can go to facebook.com/msbikerpatch

Saturday, February 16th we will have a wine tasting for the Port Washington Chamber of Commerce held at Country Inn & Suites in Port Washington.  For more information see this link:

http://www.visitportwashington.com/i/p/port_chamber.winter_tasting_1-24-13(1).pdf

If anyone would need to reach me you can call me at 262-744-0188

Sherrie Pals