Sip into Spring

Sip into

These varietals will jump-start your taste buds

By Alison Bailin Batz

Ready to try something new?

Recently released, each of these varietals — aged anywhere from six months to 10 years — will help jump-start your taste buds this spring. Cheers!

ONX 2020 Indie Rosé

While it used to be considered strictly a warm-weather sipper, in more recent years rosé has become so popular that it is now widely enjoyed year-round.

This Paso Robles winner, made from tempranillo grapes, is a perfect choice right now thanks to its notes of strawberry, spun sugar and watermelon. $22

Banshee Ten of Cup Brut NV Named in homage to the Ten of Cups tarot card, which symbolizes harmony, joy and abundance, this bottle of fi zzy bubbles is a bright and vibrant celebration of tropical fruit, green apple and citrus, complemented by marzipan and honeysuckle. $30

Cass Winery 2019 Grenache

Perfect for a night by the fi re, this 94-point Wine Enthusiast-rated wine off ers a touch of sweetness and sleek edge. It starts with strawberry and candied cranberries, but then spice comes rolling in, along with a fl ash of acid, before raspberry cream, bramble berry and cherry cola take center stage. $32 Saldo 2019 Red Blend

The newest release in the award-winning brand’s lineup of red blends, this marriage of petite sirah, syrah, cabernet sauvignon and zinfandel off ers notes of dark fruit with dried black cherries, mixed spices, with plenty of density and body. $32

fl avors give way to a dizzyingly delightful quartet of wildfl owers, forest, cranberry and pomegranate. $35 Davies 2019 Keefer Ranch Pinot Noir

2020 ONEHOPE Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Sokol Blosser 2019 Bluebird Cuvée Brut

Ripe with a dense structure, both the fl avors off ered on the nose and to the taste come in waves, perfectly layered. First, there is a lovely touch of dried herbs. Next, expect everso-subtle vanilla. Finally, chocolate rounds everything out and ties both the herbs and vanilla together. $35

Mathew Bruno 2019 Carneros Chardonnay

An exciting release for the brand, as it is made with 100% Willamette Valley fruit and showcases its charity of choice — Prescott Western

Bluebird Recovery Project — on its label. Made using pinot noir, chardonnay, riesling, müller-thurgau and muscat, it has aromatics of lychee and fresh-baked baguette, followed by a creamy texture with notes of apple and pear. $32

2019 Sea Slopes Pinot Noir Sea Slopes Pinot Noir is inspired by the majestic Sonoma Coast, where the cool maritime climate produces fruit of exceptional quality and elegance. After opening with a burst of berry and spice, the bolder

From two neighboring vineyards, the Baldacci Family’s Honey B Vineyard and Beckstoffer’s Carneros Lake Vineyard, this wine teases with aromas of nectarines, Honeycrisp apples and vanilla. To the taste, expect a rich smoothness with balanced fl avors of stone fruits, pears and honeysuckles and just a hint of spice at the fi nish. $38

McBride Sisters Collection Reserve 2018 Pinot Noir

Made to honor the founders’ — actual sisters — father, this wine is meant to be like him: confi dent and elegant. It succeeds on all levels while providing sweet aromas of crushed raspberry, rhubarb and candied cherry, and then a palate of lush red fruit notes and a hint of spice. $69.99

Mascota Vineyards Magnanime

Cabernet 2014 This stunner from Argentina is a 100% cabernet sauvignon.

It is full-bodied with extremely polished tannins.

Both to the nose and on the palate there are clear notes of crushed blackberries and currants, but also

This release marks the brand’s first bottling of a still pinot noir from Keefer

Ranch in the iconic Russian River Valley.

It boasts the Russian River’s signature cherry aroma and fl avor, but also luscious notes of blackberry, cranberry and lavender, with a lingering wisp of strawberry and touch of vanilla to boot. $75

Sebastiani 2018

Cherryblock

Cabernet Sauvignon,

Sonoma Valley Since its creation, Cherryblock has been the fl agship wine at Sebastiani. Its latest release oozes complexity and sophistication with intense, concentrated aromas of blackberry, vanilla and baking spices, followed by black fruit, cedar, spice and tobacco to the taste. $125

Capo Creek 2018 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon, Sage Ridge Vineyards

A powerful selection of beautiful Napa Sage Ridge Vineyards mountain fruit with rich fl avors and aromas of dark blackberry, cassis and blueberry, integrated with complex notes of leather, warm spice, sage and tobacco. Bonus: When you buy it online, the winemaker sends you chocolate to pair with each sip! $135

Patrimony Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Potent and perfect for anyone planning a proposal come Valentine’s Day, expect to be knocked over with a delightful combination of chocolate, cooked blackberries, violets, cedar and cigar box on the nose first. The fun then really begins when you sip, as blueberries, dulce de leche and a touch of rose petal come together in symphony of fl avor. $275 

Centennial Snapshot: Scottsdale in 1922

Scottsdale Baptist Church on the northwest corner of Indian School Road and Brown Avenue

opened in 1918. (Scottsdale Historical Society/Submitted)

By Joan Fudala

What a difference 100 years can make in one community. A century ago Scottsdale was a small but thriving farming and ranching community east of Phoenix, with the beginnings of an art colony and a handful of guest ranches that attracted tourists (many health seekers) coming for the winter season. Today, we’re a roughly 184-square-mile city of over 241,000 residents with a diverse economy and globally recognized resorts and events that attract millions of visitors annually.

So what was Scottsdale like 100 years ago? Take a look: • Scottsdale’s town site (the Old Town area today) population was estimated at 300; its area population was nearly 2,000, and its principal industries were fruit/vegetable farming, growing cotton and raising cattle. Phoenix population was 40,000; Arizona population was 500,000. • Existing infrastructure/businesses: post office/Brown’s general store, Cavalliere’s Blacksmith Shop, Ingleside Inn and golf course, Graves Guest Ranch/health camp, Scottsdale Grammar School (Little Red Schoolhouse on Main Street east of Brown Avenue) and its two annexes serving K-12 students, Farmers State Bank, Scottsdale Ginning Company cotton gin on Second Street, Lawson’s Sterling Drug Store, Herron Walker barbershop, Scottsdale Baptist Church, Johnny Rose pool hall/silent movie theater/barbershop, Scottsdale Light and Power Company (bought electricity from Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association’s Arizona Falls Generating Station), Mahoney Mercantile on Brown Avenue, McComb Brothers general store on West Main Street, Eckley’s Soft Drink Emporium and Stage Stop (providing bus transportation into Phoenix), Blackie’s Pool Hall on Main Street, Walter Smith’s car dealership, Mort Kimsey’s Scottsdale Service Company (first gas station), Brown’s Ranch/DC Ranch beyond McDowell Mountains far north of Scottsdale. • There were also home-based businesses, mostly operated by women entrepreneurs, like music teacher Helen Smith and laundress Mary Donaldson. • Scottsdale economy was driven by cotton farming (fueled by demand created during World War I), growing citrus and other food crops and ranching cattle. There were also a few sheep ranches north of Scottsdale. Cultivating dates had also begun. • Scottsdale residents had been leaders in the temperance movement, and voted the town “dry” in 1897, banning liquor sales or consumption. This continued until national Prohibition was repealed in the 1930s. • Former U.S. Vice President Thomas Marshall (1912-20) and his wife, Lois Kimsey Marshall, lived in Scottsdale seasonally in a home on Indian School Road (current location of Panera Bread). An article in the Arizona Republican in January 1922 said he contributed to relief efforts organized by Scottsdale residents to benefit members of the Fort McDowell Indian Community who were suffering from hunger and cold weather. • Artists Marjorie Thomas and Jessie Benton Evans lived and painted in Scottsdale and served as judges at the Arizona State Fair’s Fine Art Exhibit. Other artists migrated to Scottsdale in the 1920s, gaining inspiration from the landscape. • Streets in Scottsdale were unpaved. • In 1921 E.O. Brown had added an icehouse to his general store (made possible due to introduction of electricity to Scottsdale circa 1918). It used evaporative, or “swamp” cooler, technology. • Marshall and Lillian Kubelsky, (Marshall was first cousin of entertainer Jacob Kubelsky, aka Jack Benny), had opened Kubelsky’s Clothing Store (originally The Boston Store)

on Main Street in 1920. Marshall played on the Scottsdale Blues baseball team. • Al Frederick had begun his 30-year term as Scottsdale’s constable in 1920. • The year-old Baptist Young People’s Union offered two groups — the Willing Workers and Busy Bees — for Scottsdale youth activities. • Organized in 1921, the first Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce operated out of an office in the Farmer’s Bank building. Its members worked to improve road conditions and appropriations, led by road supervisor R.A. Chesnutt. The chamber was inactive in the late 1930s/early 1940s, then re-chartered in 1947 as the organization it is today. • Scottsdale’s first public library opened Aug. 7, 1921. According to The Arizona Republican, the library was located in the chamber of commerce room at the back of the Farmers Bank on Main Street (now the Rusty Spur Saloon). Its collection consisted of books, circulars and catalogs of interest to Scottsdale area farmers; a home economics section catered to families. Although this library’s closure date is not recorded, the bank closed during the Depression-era national “bank holiday” in 1933. • The Woman’s Club of Scottsdale organized in 1921, with six women attending the first meeting at the home of first president and artist Garnet Davy Grosse. • The Walter Donn Ranch hosted Scottsdale’s annual Harvest Home event, encouraging parents and teachers to get to know each other. • In 1921 Samuel and Mary Jolly had moved from Missouri for the health of their 6-monthold daughter Dora. They settled on 45 acres

During the 1920s, cotton was a major contributor to Scottsdale’s economy; a cotton gin was located on Second Street at Brown Avenue.

(Scottsdale Historical Society/Submitted) E.O. Brown and partners operated a large cattle ranch north of Scottsdale from 1916 through the

1940s. (Scottsdale Historical Society/Submitted)

north of Scottsdale, now the McCormickStillman Railroad Park site, and raised a few cows and chickens on land. They raised their three daughters on the Jolly Ranch, Marie, Dora and Rosemary, who all attended school in Scottsdale. In 1941, Mrs. Jolly sold the land to retired chemist Merle Cheney for $5,500. He, in turn, sold the site to Anne and Fowler McCormick, who gifted it to the city of Scottsdale in 1967 for a future park. • Scottsdale Blues men’s athletic club played baseball against other area teams. An allfemale Scottsdale Reds baseball team also played other area teams throughout the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s. • The Salt River Valley Water Users Association sponsored members of the Yaqui Indian tribe from Mexico to come to work on the canals, starting in 1922. The men and their families settled in a work camp near what is today the Paiute Neighborhood Center. • Scottsdale’s first newspaper, the Scottsdale Bulletin, was published by playwright Roy George. Scottsdale was also served by the Arizona Republican, published by Dwight Heard and by Arizona — The State Magazine (1922 issues featured Scottsdale area date and citrus growers). • Byer’s Market opened on the northwest corner of Scottsdale Road and Main Street in 1922. Mr. Byer’s clerk, Earl Shipp, eventually bought the market, which became the longstanding Earl’s Market. • L.D. DuRoss became Scottsdale’s first school superintendent. He led the transition from the all-class Scottsdale Grammar School to the opening of Scottsdale High School for the 1922-23 school year. Scottsdale High School opened on the north side of Indian School, east of Scottsdale Road and the original Chaplain Winfield and Helen Scott homestead. Charles Miller donated the land. Class of 1923 had three graduates, including Miller’s son and daughter Murle and Bill. Adult education classes — in home economics and agriculture — were offered at the new Scottsdale High School. Scottsdale High closed in 1983 and was torn down in 1991-92. • Clara Boyer (Beauchamp) opened the Scottsdale Café in 1922. Modest farm families did not eat out very often, but this marked the beginning of Scottsdale’s restaurant industry. • Under the auspices of the federal gov-

ernment, the Colorado River Compact set up future allocations of Colorado River water to the Upper and Lower Basin states. This 1922 measure was the start of the Central Arizona Project, which began providing water to Scottsdale in the mid-1980s. • Local radio broadcasting began in June 1922 when KFAD (now KTAR) and DDYW (now KOY) went on the air. • Maricopa County established a voting precinct and justice court in Scottsdale, giving the area its first official recognition before our incorporation in June 1951. The first justice of the peace was William Kimsey. • From the January 23, 1922, Arizona Republican: “The new gold camp of Bowlder (sic) Pass, located 16 miles north of Scottsdale, is booming according to the report of Mr. and Mrs. Hudson of this district who visit it Sunday. A force of 20 men are working the mine under the supervision of Mr. Bunch. Several new bunk houses have been put up and a new restaurant started. The ore is showing a large percentage of free gold and the district has the making of a large gold camp. The camp makes a pleasant drive from Phoenix and is interesting when one visits it and a good meal can be secured there.” • Among the who’s who of who was in 1922 Scottsdale: entrepreneur/rancher E.O. Brown, JP William Kimsey (and his wife Elizabeth), entrepreneur/farmer Charles Miller, former

Edward and Mary Graves welcomed winter visitors to Graves Guest Ranch on the northwest corner of Scottsdale and

Indian School roads. (Scottsdale Historical Society/Submitted)

U.S. Vice President Thomas Marshall and his wife Lois Kimsey Marshall, midwife Lorene Steiner, new postmaster and WWI veteran J.L Conrad, school principal/superintendent DuRoss, service station operator Mort Kimsey (and future mayor, 1958-62), guest ranch operators Edward and Mary Graves, Tomas and Cecelia Corral, hotelier Ralph Murphy, citrus farmer T.S. Bishop, farmer Walter Donn, guest cottage owners Joseph and Lotta Sidell, ranchers the Coldwells, ranchers the Demarbiex and others. • Scottsdale residents had to go to Phoenix to see a doctor or enter a hospital, to see a movie or visit a major department store. They

The McComb Brothers operated a general merchandise store on the southwest corner of Scottsdale Road and Main Street in the

1920s. (Scottsdale Historical Society/Submitted) enjoyed outings to Tempe Beach, the Riverside Ballroom, the Hole in the Rock at Papago Park and picnics at Pinnacle Peak. • All was not perfect in the Salt River Valley of 1922. There were Ku Klux Klan rallies (even in Papago Park), and discrimination and segregation existed. Diseases like tuberculosis and the flu plagued and claimed residents. Prohibition created illegal alcohol making, bootleggers and speakeasies. And before the invention of air-conditioning, many places were still hot despite the use of “swamp coolers.” • Although Scottsdale was relatively crime free, there was the occasional mishap. From the January 9, 1922, Arizona Republican: “One or more professional yeggs blew up the safe at the general store of E. O. Brown at Scottsdale about 1:15 a.m. Friday … and upon opening the store Saturday morning the heavy door of the safe was found on the floor. … The yeggs had used gloves so as to leave no finger prints and nitroglycerine was used to blow the door off. … They broke open the deposit boxes and took the contents to the store room of the building where they examined them, leaving all checks and papers that might cause them trouble later. About $200 in cash was secured and $250 in liberty bonds.”

At least one member of the Greatest Generation, born in 1922, came to Scottsdale in 1961 and made a huge impact — Jane Rau. She was one of the early and most ardent champions of saving the mountains and desert by creating the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, and we wish her a happy 100th birthday during 2022. 

APRIL 2022

Business Horoscopes

By Weiss Kelly, PMAFA

ARIES 3/21-4/20

April’s showers may be more like a consistent tsunami of world events that will aff ect your work or industry. Clear any outdated methods or contacts. The new moon in your own sign on April 1 may force you to act. Focus on your fi nancial status. Work on your own the week of April 18 and going forward.

Personal power days: April 1, April 2, April 28 and April 29

TAURUS 4/21-5/20

Every planet in our solar system is in forward motion this month, except Pluto. That means there are constant changes that require quick reactions. April requires a reality check. Infl ation is here to stay. November introduces incredible fi nancial return.

Personal power days: April 3, April 4 and April 30

GEMINI 5/21-6/21

You adjust to this “perfect storm,” bringing dramatic endings and nonnegotiable changes. Take care of tasks. Compromise may be needed by the full moon on April 16. Don’t make promises you can’t keep.

Personal power days: April 5, April 6 and April 7

CANCER 6/22-7/22

This month’s planets are moving direct. It does not happen often, causing extreme anxiety about the world government. The end of the month, April 30, introduces this year’s eclipse season of April and May. Home and family are your riches. Hold on to them. Expect day-to-day events to be unpredictable and demanding.

Personal power days: April 8 and April 9

LEO 7/23-8/22

The sun resides in the war sign of Aries until April 19. This month highlights foreign aff airs, sanctions, travel principles and war. Travel issues and business require creativity. Infl ation continues to show its ugly head. Forget that Rolls-Royce order. Supplies like food will be costly. “Quality not quantity” theory comes into play. It’s only money.

Personal power days: April 10, April 11 and April 12

VIRGO 8/23-9/22

Address pending projects. It’s important to note that this time — April 1 to May 9 — the planets marching forward in unison allows you to progress and get things done. Underline April 20; that’s the day you’re going to organize and get things done.

Personal power days: April 13 and April 14

LIBRA 9/23-10/23

The sun in the sign of aggressive Aries until midmonth. World aff airs will be challenging. “Compromise” is the keyword for the beginning of the month. Rethink your options. You have no problem making concessions in the economic changes. Air signs fair well these next years, but April can be a bit edgy from April 1 to April 11, or April 27.

Personal power days: April 16 and April 17

SCORPIO 10/24-11/21

Anything can happen — and will it? The planets marching in unison during the month will give a sense of power and strength. Take control and work things out on your own. Take time to trust your instincts. You need an inner talk with Mars. Look forward to a personal game-changer in May. Despite the current world crises, you can gain control and work things out.

Personal power days: April 18 and April 19

SAGITTARIUS 11/22-12/21

When destiny calls, as it is now, answer in some manner. Expect restrictions, limitations and necessities to be no longer in production or available. Principles, ethics and freedoms are questioned. This month paints a changing world landscape called evolution. Local and world crises are concerns. How does this aff ect you personally and professionally? Establish options and start working on them. Underline April 1 to April 16.

Personal power days: April 19 and April 20

CAPRICORN 12/22-1/19

The planets in retrograde will not slow you down. Complete projects this month and be ready to sign on the dotted line next month. Your determination is paying off this year. Capricorns are late bloomers. Success takes longer to achieve. Take it easy, relax and work on relationships. Pisces favors the arts.

Personal power days: April 21 and April 22

AQUARIUS 1/20-2/18

You are in rare form this month. The moving planets motivate you to make those calls and take risks. You’ll alter your life in the next six months. There are serious subjects to consider in April. There are some happy days ahead, despite surrounding world crises, as military tensions escalate. Attend networking events.

Personal power days: April 23 and April 24

PISCES 2/19-3/20

You need not let others or surrounding conditions hold you back. This is a lucky month. Once Jupiter joins your sign on April 15, many doors will open. Your selfconfi dence returns as you move out of your comfort zone the last half of the month. The creative arts will return and can be healing. So, enjoy the gifts they off er.

Personal power days: April 25, April 26 and April 27 

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