Fall in a Glass

FOOD & WINE

in a Fall GLASS

Awesomely autumnal wines to sip

By Alison Bailin Batz

Fall is an interesting time in the Valley. While the hottest days of the year are fi nally behind us, it isn’t quite cool enough for jackets just yet. That can make choosing the perfect wine tough — as many opt for more tropical and refreshing fl avor profi les in the summer and then big, bold fl avor profi les in the winter. But fear not! We have you covered with some amazing bottles for fall in Arizona. Neither too light nor too bold, if Goldilocks was of age, she would call them “just right.”

Chateau Magnol AOC Haut-Médoc, Cru Bourgeois 2016

This blend of merlot and cabernet sauvignon — from a vineyard whose winemaking history dates back to 1842 — off ers multilayered complexity with black cherry fruit, mint and spice notes, as well as vanilla and tobacco on the fi nish. Decant and pair with your end of season grilling. $29.99

Graham Beck Blanc de Blancs 2016

The fruit for this wine was hand-selected and hand-harvested from Graham Beck’s epic Chardonnay clonal block on its awardwinning Robertson Estate. That means this will be beyond elegant and impressive and a sparkling wine with a little more meat on its bones versus the light, bright options you drank all summer. $30

Baileyana Firepeak Pinot Noir, Edna Valley 2018

The Edna Valley is the coolest growing region in all of California, but the Firepeak vineyard blocks are defined by extinct volcanoes found in the area, creating unique soils. This wine is much like the volcanos that came before it, in that it erupts, albeit with ripe cherry, blackberry, cinnamon and tobacco. $30

Rombauer Vineyards Carneros Chardonnay

Among the most awarded and beloved white wines in the nation, the bright fruitforward palate of this chardonnay is inviting, and the rich, creamy palate works well with so many beloved foods as we turn to fall. It is a celebration of ripe yellow peach, Meyer lemon, clove and vanilla in every sip. $38

J Vineyards & Winery Cuvée 20 Brut NV

This sparkler opens with nuanced aromas of toasted almond, setting the stage for a burst of fall in every sip, including notes of Braeburn apple, dried cranberry and even a little ginger snap, followed by a hint of tart lemon meringue to remind you it isn’t fall just yet. $38

Talbott Vineyards 2017 Sleepy Hollow Vineyard Chardonnay

Despite its name, don’t sleep on this exceptional tropical take on chardonnay, as it off ers Pink Lady apple, Bosc pear, pineapple and even a hint of brioche. There is a zesty acid versus full creaminess one usually expects in a California chardonnay. $42 off ers delicate notes of white fl owers, fl int, citrus and stone fruits, with almonds and walnuts on the palate, that is meant to be shared with everyone from friends and family to colleagues. $42

Louis M. Martini Winery 2018 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

Notes of black cherry, blackberry and plum are complemented by hits of toasted oak, dried currant and baking spice in this versatile little vixen. It is also surprisingly balanced, perfect for warm or cool nights. $45

The Hunt Red Blend, Sonoma County 2018

A stunner for evenings when the weather dips below 90 degrees, this is a Bordeaux-style blend of cabernet sauvignon, merlot and cabernet franc aged in French and American oak barrels. The result is rich character without being too over the top. $45

Yangarra Estate Vineyards Ovitelli Grenache 2019

The certified organic and biodynamic vineyard is not messing around with this perfumed and elegant grenache from the sands at Yangarra. The vibrant fruit of those dry-grown 1946 bush vines results in fall (or almost fall) in a glass. $60

Bledsoe Family Winery Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

This deep ruby-colored cabernet hints to the summer’s days past with aromatics of dark fruits such as blackberry and Bing cherry. It also welcomes the fall days ahead with nuisances of wood and baking spice. $60

Darioush 2018 Merlot

Aromatically complex with licorice, violets, dusty cocoa and fine leather, before providing dense black cherry and currant on the palate, this award winner is powerful yet polished. The closing notes of savory herbs, forest and delicate bergamot notes are a pleasant surprise as well. $68

Yalumba The Signature Cabernet and Shiraz 2016

Aromatic with a dizzyingly delicious blend of red currants, cedar, cranberry and dark chocolate, each vintage of this red blend is extra special in that it is released to honor an individual who has made a significant contribution to the culture and traditions of the Yalumba region. $69.99

Masciarelli Villa Gemma Montepulciano 2015

Rombauer Vineyards Carneros Chardonnay is a celebration of ripe yellow peach, Meyer lemon, clove and vanilla in every sip priced at $38

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micro-AVA of Napa Valley, this limitededition head-turner packs a punch of lush fruit flavors of black cherry, blackberry and boysenberry with hints of tobacco, licorice and chocolate. $100

Faust 2018 The Pact

Make a pact with friends to enjoy this together on a special evening this month. It opens with fresh aromas of black cherries and black currants, then magically blue fruits with graphite, tobacco, star anise round out the finish. $125

An intensely beautiful Italian wine of character and complexity, expect notes of red fruit, cherry, currant, violet and hints of tobacco here. The bold tannins and great acidity also make this for pairing with most fall foods. $90

Bread & Butter Atlas Peak Cabernet Sauvignon

Grown and produced in the celebrated Gundlach Bundschu 2016 Vintage Reserve

Fresh blackberry and black currant get the party started in this bottle, before nutmeg and cinnamon bark join the festivities. The earth, clove-infused finish is what dreams are made of, at least a wine lover’s dreams. $125 

REMEMBER When Savor memories of outdoor

Civic Center events By Joan Fudala

If attending outdoor events or just relaxing at Scottsdale’s Civic Center has been your thing, you may have to put your plans on hold for the next year.

From October 2021 through December 2022, much of Scottsdale’s Civic Center is undergoing a significant transformation. While indoor activities at City Hall, Civic Center Library, the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, SMoCA and the many businesses surrounding Civic Center will continue their operations, major otudoor events will be on hiatus.

Now is the perfect time to look back at Scottsdale’s 53 years of activities. • Today’s Scottsdale Civic Center (formerly called Civic Center Mall) is generally bounded by Brown Avenue to the west, Indian School to the north, 75th Street to the east and Second Street to the south in the heart of Old Town Scottsdale. • Prior to Civic Center Mall (between 1968 and 1975), the area was a neighborhood of modest homes and a few businesses and restaurants. • On the west side, Scottsdale Grammar School opened for the 1909-10 school year. As the only “public” building in the small, unincorporated town of Scottsdale (until Scottsdale High opened in 1923), school, civic, religious and cultural events were held outdoors on the school grounds. It operated as a school until the early 1950s, then served as town hall and the library. When the former schoolhouse was threatened with demolition in 1968, the Scottsdale Historical Society (SHS) formed to “Save the Little Red Schoolhouse.” Today the building houses the Scottsdale Historical Museum and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Numerous SHS events have taken place on its patio, from old-fashioned picnics to pancake breakfasts and the annual Winfield Scott/Founders Day party. • The historic Adobe House — built circa 1897 by the Blount family and used as a guest ranch for decades — became the volunteer-run Civic Coordinating Council’s Scottsdale Community Center and public library in the early 1950s. Children’s library programs were held outdoors in the area around the Adobe House, now where the Civic Center Library parking garage is located. A municipal swimming pool opened on the grounds in 1960. The community center, library and pool became part of the newly created Scottsdale Parks and Recreation Department in the early 1960s. • Although Scottsdale voters rejected the first bond issue to fund a proposed Scottsdale Civic Center in 1965, they approved a $2.4 million bond issue in 1966. The concept, stemming from the citizen-driven Scottsdale Town Enrichment Program, was to create an indoor/outdoor public space that would include a new city hall, a new public library, landscaped park-like grounds, and future plans for additional land for public facilities and uses. • A citizen committee selected Arizona architect Bennie Gonzales to design the Civic Center. Situated on 14 acres of what is the east side of today’s Civic Center, he planned a 36,000-square-foot city hall and a 39,000-square-foot public library in a contemporary Southwest style. • Citizens on Scottsdale’s Fine Arts Commission facilitated the first pieces of outdoor public art for the new Civic Center, including “Don Quixote” (Dale Wright), “Mother and Child” (John Henry Waddell), “Woman and Fish” (Abbott Pattison) and “An Abstraction” (R. Phillips Sanderson, later moved to Via Linda Senior Center). Scottsdale students collected coins in May 1968 to fund the Children’s Fountain, also called the Fountain of Youth, for the Civic Center.

This 1974-75 aerial shows City Hall and Civic Center Library, top, on the east side of Civic Center, the parking garage, center, opened in 1974 and the Scottsdale Center for the Arts under construction. (Photo courtesy of the Scottsdale Historical Society) A municipal pool was available from the 1960s to the 1980s, when it was replaced by a parking garage between Civic Center Library and Scottsdale Stadium. (Photo courtesy of the Scottsdale Historical Society)

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Begun in 1971, the Scottsdale Arts Festival has become a popular annual spring outdoor

event at Civic Center. (Photo courtesy of the Scottsdale Historical Society)

• The city hosted a grand dedication for its new Civic Center in October 1968, highlighted by a mariachi-led procession down Main Street to the new city hall and a performance by Arizona balladeer Dolan Ellis. • Civic Center’s beautifully landscaped grounds, lagoons and fountains became the backdrop for fashion photo shoots. • The first Scottsdale’s All Indian Days was staged outdoors at the Civic Center in 1969 and brought Native American performers from many communities throughout the Southwest to Scottsdale. • October Fairs, a carnival sponsored by the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce on Civic Center Mall in the 1970s, benefited local nonprofit groups. • In 1971 the Scottsdale Fine Arts Commission hosted the first Scottsdale Arts Festival. From February 12 to March 14, multiple events were staged in various venues throughout Scottsdale but particularly on the Civic Center’s outdoor spaces. Featured at events were longtime Scottsdale resident artists Philip Curtis, William Schimmel, Paolo Soleri, Agnese Udinotti, Walter Bohl and several others. It has continued to be held as a three-day outdoor event on Civic Center Mall in March (except the past two years of COVID-19 cancellations). • On October 15, 1972, the city of Scottsdale dedicated an amphitheater between the library and City Hall; Jerry Van Dyke was the featured entertainer. Scottsdale Arts has sponsored numerous outdoor concerts at the site. • After helping to ensure its preservation and renovating its interior and exterior, the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce moved into the 1909-vintage Little Red Schoolhouse in 1973, operating its offices and visitors center there until 1991. Many chamber events, from new member orientations to mixers, were held on the patio in front. • Main Street was permanently closed east of Brown Avenue in 1973 to facilitate construction of the west side of Civic Center Mall, which was dedicated in November 1974. The west side of the mall included the Mercado Verde shop and restaurant spaces, which opened in 1977. • An entire weekend of events in November 1973 celebrated installation of Louise Nevelson’s “Windows to the West” Corten steel public art

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sculpture on the east side of Scottsdale Civic Center. • In 1978, the Scottsdale League for the Arts began its annual Scottsdale Culinary Festival. Proceeds from the event have supported local arts nonprofit organizations; the event also provided new exposure for Scottsdale’s talented chefs and variety of restaurants. • Among countless other events “on the mall” — Night Run for the Arts, CultureQuest and Native Trails, Sunday A’Fairs, GreekFest, VisionFest, Veterans Day and Memorial Day ceremonies at The Chaplain statue behind City Hall, events celebrating Spring Training, 1993 America-Japan Week events, weddings in the rose garden, holiday tree lightings at Brown & Main, a 1973 Parks & Rec Department-sponsored ski class at Civic Center (tons of ice brought in and pulverized for snow), TreeCity USA ceremonies, Scottsdale’s Golden Rule City events (2017 and 2021), and the January 2021 outdoor swearing-in of Mayor David Ortega and three new councilmembers, all in masks, to adhere to COVID-19 protocols. • Many improvements have been made to the Civic Center area since 1968: the Center for the Performing Arts opened in October 1975; the (Maxine & Jonathan) Marshall Rose Garden was dedicated in 1974; a Doubletree Inn opened in 1975 (after many branding changes, it is now The Saguaro); the Civic Center Senior Center opened on Second Street in 1976; and the Civic Center Boulevard (renamed Drinkwater Boulevard in 2000) overpass, linking the east and west sides of Civic Center Mall, was dedicated in January 1986. The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art opened in February 1999 in a former movie theater. • Scottsdale Public Art and citizen groups have funded/installed additional outdoor art around Civic Center, including: Jose Bermudez’s “Mountains and Rainbows” (1976), Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculpture (2002), Clyde Ross Morgan’s “Mayor Herbert Herb Drinkwater and “His Dog Sadie” (2003), George Ann Tognoni’s “The Yearlings” (1986) and her “Winfield Scott, Helen and Old Maude” (2007); Kenji Umeda’s “Allurement of a Journey,” which was dedicated to the late Scottsdale artist Lew Davis (1980); Gary Slater’s “Right Angle Variations” (1975); and the U.S. Marine Corps mural (2015). In 1990, the Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian House was built on Civic Center Mall and open for several months for public tours. • The Richard Mayer Memorial Garden — just north of City Hall and dedicated in 1969 — contains tributes to Scottsdale’s first mayor, Malcolm White; to Scottsdale’s Sister Cities; and to other Scottsdale milestones and personalities. A bench dedicated to Bill Jenkins, who served as mayor from 1974 to 1980, is also adjacent to City Hall.

A pond in front of Scottsdale City Hall was home to several generations of swans, starting with Winnie and Pooh in 1968. Some of their offspring are photographed here. (Photo by Joan Fudala) • To accommodate all those coming to events, businesses and public buildings at Civic Center, two parking garages were built — one on the west side in 1974 (designed by Taliesin Architects) and one between Civic Center Library and the ballpark in 1985. • Remember the municipal court/police building just west of the Little Red Schoolhouse, dedicated on June 25, 1961, and closed in the 1970s? City council In May 1968, Scottsdale school children donated the equivalent of meetings and other public hearone day’s lunch money to fund the Children’s Fountain, or Fountain ings were held there until the new of Youth, for the new Scottsdale Civic Center. (Photo by Joan Fudala) city hall opened in 1968. • Remember Civic Center-area eateries like Tico Taco, China Lil’s, the Old Corral, Chez Louis, Pepin, Backstage, Orange Table, Blue Moose and Pure Sushi? And hurrah for the longevity of Los Olivos, as well as AZ/88 and its outdoor patio overlooking Civic Center. • Remember the swans in the City Hall pond, Winnie and Pooh, and their offspring Christopher and Robin? • Remember Jed Nolan’s Music Hall and the UA Cinema/dollar movies? • Remember the bad storm in September 1998 that knocked over many Civic Center trees? • Remember driving up to the box office at Scottsdale Center for the Arts, with its windows on the northeast side of the building, facing the mall? Coming attractions were featured on a huge marquee above box office windows. • Remember the School for the Blind on the grounds of the community center? It was generously supported by the Scottsdale Jaycees before moving to Phoenix. Surely you have many memories of your own of outdoor activities in the Scottsdale

Native Trails brought Native American cultural performances to Civic Center Mall area. Look forward to

Civic Center Mall during the 2000s. (Photo by Joan Fudala) making many more after the renovation!  36 / SCOTTSDALE AIRPARK NEWS / OCTOBER 2021

OCTOBER 2021

Business Horoscopes

By Weiss Kelly, PMAFA

ARIES 3/21-4/20

October’s patterns may seem more tranquil in comparison to last month’s happenings. The first half of the month (October 1 to October 19) may bring mishaps in your day-to-day plans. The Libra sun calls for a compromise in your business affairs. You will be more social and productive, thanks to the full moon on October 20. That means you have more Halloween treats and fewer tricks.

Personal power days: October 18, October 19 and October 20

TAURUS 4/21-5/20

October’s sun emphasizes health and work. Utilize the new moon on October 6 to improve your career. Set a timeline for this but consider the October 20 full moon. Start exercising. Working with others becomes harmonious.

Personal power days: October 21 and October 22

GEMINI 5/21-6/21

This Halloween month offers more treats than tricks. Five retrograde planets may hold you back until later in the month. Use this off time to catch up, hone your communication skills or, for some, have a quick getaway. Hold off signing long-term agreements or making major purchases between October 1 and October 19. You’ll socialize the second half of the month.

Personal power days: October 23, October 24 and October 25

CANCER 6/22-7/22

Early October’s energies center around family and home. Everything that makes you feel secure is in a state of flux, that includes the costs of supplies, food, construction, rent and insurance. For the next six months, make adjustments. Think about learning a new skill the week of October 28. The latter part of October is favorable. Remember, home is where the heart is.

Personal power days: October 26 and October 27

LEO 7/23-8/22

Don’t allow unfinished issues interfere with your enjoyment. October’s unpredictability can set you in a new direction before the year ends. Mars, the planet of action, has you running errands during this two-week transit (the new moon on October 6 until the full moon on October 20). Pay attention to hard news. Changes are challenging and push you forward.

Personal power days: October 1, October 2, October 28, October 29 and October 30

VIRGO 8/23-9/22

You can accomplish more by yourself. The five planets that reside in a backward pattern may bring discord in work or health issues. Finances will control October 6 to October 20. Do some rearranging or leave projects. The COVID-19 dance continues to affect prices. Expect new advances in technologies.

Personal power days: October 3, October 4 and October 5

LIBRA 9/23-10/23

Challenges will take you by surprise this month. You don’t need to please others. Sun remains in your sign until October 22, and you’ll make an impression on others. October 18 and October 19 are great days to try something new. Put an emphasis on your financials.

Personal power days: October 6 and October 7

SCORPIO 10/24-11/21

Address your financial and personal matters by the end of October. Serious conflicts are unclear and confusing. Hold off making any rash or untimely decisions. You’ll come up with a better solution or a new plan after the full moon on October 20. You can work things out by October 23 or October 24.

Personal power days: October 8 and October 9

SAGITTARIUS 11/22-12/21

You’ll feel refreshed once you start networking again. Circle October 6. Around October 20, you’ll wonder when you will have freedom of choice. When Pluto goes direct on October 7, it will introduce you to a whole new world. Plan accordingly and have faith in yourself.

Personal power days: October 10 and October 11

CAPRICORN 12/22-1/19

Overhaul your work and personal lives. Crises are creeping into your work world. Rid yourself of baggage. By midmonth (October 10 to October 31), you’ll be encouraged to attend social events. They empower you to enjoy recreational activities.

Personal power days: October 12 and October 13

AQUARIUS 1/20-2/18

The news centers around world politics and a threatening crisis. Your life will be altered, thanks to this high global energy. October will shake up all of us. Don’t make any rash moves but expect a change of job or partnership. Fun and romance awaits.

Personal power days: October 14 and October 15

PISCES 2/19-3/20

Get out of your comfort zone. Midmonth you’ll have a reality check about your job. Don’t overlook an opportunity to switch jobs or learn a new skill. Communication snafus require you to find to keep abreast of trends. The full moon on October 20 brings hidden issues to light. Good news: October ends favorably.

Personal power days: October 16 and October 17

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