It’s a Howl-O-Ween costume contest party! Bring your four-legged friends to York!

Wine Down Thursday: Katie’s Thanksgiving Picks!
Thursday, October 29, from 6 to 7:30 pm
Sampler: $20 per person

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and Katie is sharing three of her favorite wines to bring to the holiday table! Join us this Thursday as we explore a festive lineup of bubbles, bright and mineral-driven Chenin Blanc, and a lively, fruit-forward red. Whether you’re kicking off the celebration or pairing wines with the feast, these bottles are sure to make your Thanksgiving table shine.

Cheers to a Sunday afternoon of music and dancing with Hot Club Michigan!

Few people understand Chenin Blanc the way Craig Haarmeyer does. One of California’s foremost specialists in this remarkable grape, he has devoted his career to a single question: how can a wine speak for the place where it was grown? His answer lives in the glass. Each bottle captures the distinct personality of its vineyard, shaped by a deep understanding of terroir and a refusal to let anything come between the grape and its home.

Join us for a tasting of four of his wines, poured by Craig himself, who will share the stories behind each bottle. Ask him anything, see California through the eyes of one of its most passionate champions, and settle in for an evening of great wine and even better conversation. This is Craig’s very first visit to Ann Arbor, so raise a glass and help us make it one to remember!

Meet the Winemaker: Jean-Michel Morel of Kabaj
Friday, October 16, from 6 to 7:30pm
Sampler: $20/person

Join us for a rare opportunity to taste with Jean-Michel Morel, one of Slovenia’s most charismatic winemakers and the creative force behind Kabaj. Together with his wife, Katja Kabaj, Jean-Michel brings the traditions of Goriška Brda into conversation with a French sensibility shaped by experience, patience, and conviction. His wines reveal the possibilities of local grapes, extended skin contact, and thoughtful maturation, offering texture and depth without losing their sense of place. We’ll explore four distinctive bottlings that showcase the breadth of his craft, from his namesake Cuvée Morel to a compelling Rebula and a red matured in Georgian qvevri. Discover the wines and the personality behind this singular Slovenian estate, with the winemaker himself guiding us through each distinctive expression.

Featured Wines:
2021 Rebula
2017 Cabernet Franc
2013 Cuvée Morel
2016 Amfora Red

Join Active Against ALS for an evening of great food, fine drinks, and community support at their 4th Annual Uncork a Cure for ALS! This year’s event will be held at York Food & Drink on October 15 from 6- 9 p.m. Following last year’s event – where 180 guests helped raise nearly $36,000 for critical ALS research – we are excited to gather again to make an even bigger impact.

Admission includes delicious food from Zingerman’s, wine and beer tastings, and live music by Four Roses. Even if you cannot attend in person, you can still support the cause through an online auction. Admission is $110 through September 29 ($130 September 30 and at the door). Grab your tickets early to secure the discounted rate! We are also looking for volunteers to help at the event. Please sign up here if you would like to lend a hand.

Can’t attend? You can still sponsor or donate here. See you there!

Wine Down Thursday: Terres Blanches with Hallie
October 15 from 6 to 7:30pm
Sampler: $20/person

We’re delighted to welcome industry veteran Hallie Hammons of Terres Blanches for a tasting that brings southern France into focus. A family-owned importer, Terres Blanches champions independent French growers whose thoughtful farming and authentic wines express the character of their vineyards. Its portfolio emphasizes organic wines, connecting us with producers who place the health of their vineyards at the heart of their work.

We’ll explore the wines from Domaine Lampyres and Olivier Pithon, each a distinct expression of Roussillon from producers united by a commitment to organic farming and a strong sense of place. Having just returned from a visit with FX Dauré of Lampyres, Hallie will bring firsthand insights to the tasting. It’s a treat to have her lead us through these wines, sharing her experience and perspective as we discover the people, landscapes, and choices behind each bottle.

Lasagna dinner at YORK, in support of EMU Swoop's Food Pantry! $20 dinner includes: Lasagna, caesar salad, garlic bread and your choice of beverage: soda, water, beer or wine!

Sunday October 11, 2026 4-7pm at YORK. Every dinner purchased helps support Swoops Pantry at EMU.

Sip wine, laugh, connect, and enjoy the process — no experience needed.

Wine Down Thursday: French Countryside
October 8 from 6 to 7:30pm
Sampler: $20/person

For this Wine Down Thursday, we’re heading to three French wine regions where sunshine, scenery, and sheer joie de vivre find their way straight into the glass. From Languedoc’s wild, herb-scented Mediterranean slopes to the Southern Rhône’s sun-baked stones and Beaujolais’s improbably charming hills, these are wines with both polish and personality. Expect generous fruit, savory detail, refreshing lift, and enough regional distinction to keep even the most seasoned palate happily occupied. Think village markets, cicadas, long lunches, crooked stone houses, and one more bottle opened because the afternoon simply demands it. Come ready to compare terroirs, debate grapes, and briefly convince yourself that moving to the French countryside is a perfectly sensible plan.

Join us in our Space on Jorn for a relaxed candle-making experience where beautiful scents, hands-on creation, and a warm tasting room atmosphere come together.

Sip wine, laugh, connect, and enjoy the process — no experience needed.

There's no place quite like Italy for red wine. Every region, grape, and village seems to bring its own distinct personality to the glass. For this week's Wine Down Thursday, we're taking a spirited tour through three iconic Italian regions, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, and Tuscany, each offering a completely different expression of Italian red wine.

We'll begin with an elegant, aromatic Piedmontese blend, all lifted perfume, bright fruit, and graceful structure. Next comes a classic Chianti Classico from Tuscany: savory, energetic, and unmistakably Sangiovese. To finish, we're popping open a perfectly fizzy Lambrusco from Emilia-Romagna, juicy, refreshing, and guaranteed to put a little extra sparkle in your Thursday.

One exciting newcomer, two familiar shop favorites, three signature styles, and plenty to discover. Join us for a delicious Italian red-wine adventure. Salute!

Simply Spanish Pops Up in the York Yard!

Wine Down Thursday: Bedrock Wine Co.
September 24 from 6 to 7:30pm
Sampler: $25/person

Join us for an exceptional Wine Down tasting featuring Bedrock Wine Co., founded by Master of Wine Morgan Twain-Peterson. When we met Morgan, his warmth, purpose, and deep respect for California’s historic vineyards were immediately apparent. Bedrock has spent nearly two decades preserving and revitalizing old-vine sites, crafting expressive, place-driven wines that honor the state’s remarkable viticultural legacy. For this tasting, we will pour three distinctive selections: two timeless red wines that showcase Bedrock’s signature depth, character, and balance, alongside a bright, effortlessly drinkable Sauvignon Blanc. Whether you are already a fan of California wine or simply eager to discover something memorable, this is an invitation to taste wines with real history, personality, and a true sense of place.

Join us in the wine room as John features an array of classic records and CD’s for your listening pleasure. 🤌🏽

Wine Down Thursday: Three Shades of the Season
September 17 from 6 to 7:30pm
Sampler: $20/person

As the first crisp breeze rustles the leaves and golden light stretches long across the afternoon, we're raising a glass to the season's most seductive shift, from sun-filled patios to candlelit corners, from long, lazy afternoons to something a little more soulful. This Thursday, we're pouring three wines that capture autumn not just in flavor, but in feeling.

First, a California white blend that refuses to play by the rules, unexpected, layered, and utterly its own creature. Next, a savory rosé from the slate-laced slopes of the Mosel, proving pink wine can have real backbone. And finally, a beautifully aged Beaujolais from Chiroubles, silky and contemplative, like autumn itself in a glass.

Three wines, one unforgettable descent into fall.

Wine Down Thursday: Aromatic Reds
September 10 from 6 to 7:30pm
Sampler: $20/person

Join us for this week’s Wine Down Thursday, a fragrant exploration of three expressive reds that prove delicacy can be deeply satisfying. As late summer shifts toward cooler evenings, light, aromatic reds offer exactly the right kind of pleasure: vibrant, versatile, and effortlessly inviting. Each pour sits on the lighter end of the red wine spectrum, yet every wine carries its own sense of structure, energy, and quiet complexity.

Travel from the lifted perfume and Alpine freshness of Piedmont, to the sunlit, schist-driven Roussillon, and on to the high-elevation granite slopes of Sierra de Gredos. Expect captivating aromatics, graceful texture, and beautifully balanced finishes that build with every sip. These are reds made for lingering conversation, good food, and one more glass.

Join us Thursday, September 10th at 5:30 for a unique high-fidelity discovery music experience.

Our Space on Packard will be hosting focused, intentional listening sessions with varied themes, genres and vibes. Local guitarist Garret Bielaniec will be playing blues in the York Yard.

Imbibe. Listen. Learn. Enjoy.

Wine Down Thursday: Sandlands Vineyards
September 3 from 6 to 7:30pm
Sampler: $25/person

Tegan Passalacqua has spent his career listening to California's oldest vines, and Sandlands is where that conversation becomes wine. Our next Wine Down tasting traces a quiet rebellion against the state's era of big, jammy wines, returning instead to a more honest question: what does this specific patch of earth actually taste like in the glass?

Passalacqua hunts down heritage sites planted in decomposed granite: sandy, mineral-driven soils that force vines to struggle, and struggle beautifully. The result isn't power for power's sake. It's balance, tension, and a sense of place you can taste in every glass.

Across these three wines, you'll trace California's viticultural memory—vines that predate Prohibition, farmed by families for generations—reframed through Tegan's obsessive site-specificity. Each bottle is a rebuttal to the idea that California means only ripeness and richness. This is terroir-driven winemaking, vintage after vintage, proving that the state's oldest vineyards still have something new to say.

Tacos El Panda Truck Pop-Up in the York Yard!

Wine Down Thursday: Spanish Reds, Uncharted
August 27 from 6 to 7:30pm
Sampler: $20/person

As summer begins to soften at the edges, join us for a journey through Spain’s less-traveled red-wine landscapes: three bottles chosen for their energy, individuality, and unmistakable sense of place. We’ll begin in Aragón, where Garnacha and Tempranillo bring sun-soaked fruit, savory spice, and generous Mediterranean depth without heaviness.

For the final two wines, we’ll travel east to Catalonia and the vineyards of Alt Penedès, a corner better known for sparkling wine but home to quietly radical, characterful reds. We’ll taste a blend of equal parts Sumoll, Xarel·lo, and Garnatxa Blanca, offering uncommon freshness, texture, and personality, before ending with a pure expression of Sumoll, vivid, aromatic, and lifted by bright acidity.

Summer Session 01 by Awakened Collective is a curated vintage fashion and streetwear market at The Space at York, bringing together some of Michigan's top vintage vendors, independent clothing brands, live music, food, and drinks.

Join us in celebrating Michigan's thriving vintage and streetwear community with a day of shopping, style, and local creativity.

Southern France offers rare alchemy: relentless sun, storied soils, and a culture that has honored wine for centuries. This tasting brings together three expressions of that harmony.

We open with a Sauvignon Blanc from Pays d'Oc in the Languedoc, crisp and aromatic, full of citrus brightness shaped by Mediterranean warmth and coastal breeze.

Next, a Bandol rosé from Provence, grown on sun-baked terraces above the sea. Structured and dry, with red berry and garrigue herb notes, it reflects Provence's deep-rooted rosé tradition and the discipline of old Mourvèdre vines.

We close in the western Languedoc's Haute Vallée de l'Aude, where Atlantic winds meet Mediterranean heat in the Pyrenees foothills. Here, altitude and clay limestone soils produce a red of remarkable freshness and depth, a quieter, cooler climate counterpoint to the coast.

Together, these wines trace a journey through sun, soil, and centuries of winemaking culture, an invitation to taste southern France at its most expressive.

Join us as live jazz musicians and swing dancers perform in the wine room!

Wine Down Thursday: Txakoli
August 13 from 6 to 7:30pm
Sampler: $20/person

Join us to explore Txakoli, the sparkling-hearted white wine that captures the Atlantic soul of Spain’s Basque Country. Brisk, saline, and irresistibly refreshing, it is the region’s wine: shaped by cool coastal air, steep green vineyards, and a table culture built around seafood and celebration. We’ll taste one wine from Bizkaiko Txakolina and two from Getariako Txakolina, tracing distinct expressions of place. Raise a glass to one of summer’s most joyful pleasures with friends, and sunshine!

Wine Down Thursday: Summer Favorites!
August 6 from 6 to 7:30pm
Sampler: $20/person

Summer doesn't ask for much — just something cold, something honest, and someone to share it with. So we pulled together three bottles that get it.

We're kicking things off with the 2024 Luneau-Papin Le Verger Muscadet, a briny, mineral-driven white that tastes like the ocean took a vacation to the vineyard. Next up, the 2025 Domaine Charvin Côtes-du-Rhône Rosé, proof that even a region famous for big, brooding reds can pour something this effortlessly refreshing. And closing things out, the 2024 Les Lunes Cosmic Blend, a chillable red that isn't fussed about grapes or technique. It's just here for a good time, organically farmed and barely touched in the cellar.

No pretension, no overthinking, just three low-intervention, high-drinkability bottles built for warm nights and good company. Come thirsty. Leave with favorites.

Wine Down Thursday: Island Beauties
July 30 from 6 to 7L30pm
Sampler: $25/person

There’s something about island wine that just makes sense in the heart of summer. Surrounded by sea air, grown in volcanic soil or wind-battered vineyards, and often made from grapes you won’t find anywhere else, island wines carry a sense of place unlike any other. Isolation has preserved rare indigenous varieties, while maritime climates and mineral-rich soils give the wines a distinct salinity, brightness, and freshness that make them ideal warm-weather drinking.

Join us as we island-hop through the glass with three wines that showcase this diversity: a Vermentinu and Biancu Gentile blend from Corsica, a partially skin-contact Listán Blanco from the Canary Islands, and an old-vine cuvée of Nerello Mascalese from Sicily. Each offers a different expression of coastal terroir, from volcanic minerality to sun-soaked fruit.

Come taste your way across the Mediterranean and Atlantic, no passport required. See you there!

Wine Down Thursday: Skin Contact
July 23 from 6 to 7:30pm
Sampler: $20/person

It's hot outside! Beat the heat with us at Wine Down Thursday, where we're pouring three skin-contact wines from Spain, Italy, and Austria.

Skin-contact wine (sometimes called "orange wine") is made by letting white wine grapes hang out with their skins during fermentation, just like red wine. That extra contact time pulls in more color, texture, and tannin than a typical white, giving these wines a deeper hue, a little grip, and layers of flavor you won't find in a standard glass of white.

Don't let the name fool you, though. These aren't heavy, demanding wines. All three picks are bright, mineral-driven, and refreshing, proof that skin-contact wine can be just as thirst-quenching as your go-to summer white, with a lot more personality.

Wine Down Thursday: Wild, Happy, and Fun!
July 16 from 6 to 7:30pm
Sampler $20/person

Every wine for this week’s Wine Down comes from producers who believe in doing less, minimal or no additions, native yeasts, gentle handling, and a lot of trust placed in the vineyard itself. These are low-intervention wines: alive, a little unpredictable, sometimes cloudy, always honest.

We're pouring three exciting wines that showcase the beauty of low-intervention winemaking. Each offers a completely distinct style while sharing a commitment to expressing place, grape, and vintage with minimal manipulation. From the shores of West Michigan to the mountains of Lebanon and the vineyards of California, these wines are vibrant, thoughtful, and full of personality.

Travel back in time at YORK's next cocktail class! The prohibition of alcohol led, paradoxically, to an explosion of drinking culture and creativity. Faced with limited resources and the challenge of bootlegging, bartenders used their ingenuity to invent new cocktails to keep the party going. Explore this rich period of American history while tasting the libations of the time!

Tickets include several mini-cocktails and a take-home recipe sheet.

Wine Down Thursday: German Excursion
July 9 from 6 to 7:30pm
Sampler: $20/person

Join us Thursday, July 9th, as we taste through three exceptional German wines, from a world-class traditional-method sparkling wine to an elegantly balanced off-dry Riesling to a vibrant, dry Pinot Noir rosé. These wines come from the Pfalz and Rheinhessen, two of Germany's premier wine regions, where a new generation of producers is combining centuries-old traditions with sustainable farming and meticulous winemaking. As you taste, notice how each wine balances fruit and acidity while expressing its unique sense of place. These bottles offer an excellent snapshot of why we think Germany has become one of the most exciting wine-producing countries.

Featured Wines:
NV von Winning Riesling Sekt Extra Brut
Based in Deidesheim in the Pfalz, Weingut von Winning is one of Germany's most highly regarded estates, known for pairing traditional craftsmanship with a modern, terroir-driven philosophy. With roots dating to the 19th century, the estate has become a leader in both world-class Riesling and traditional-method Sekt. High-density planting — 5,060 vines per acre — pushes root systems deep into the soil, naturally limiting yields. This Extra Brut spends extended time on its lees, lending a fine, persistent mousse and added complexity. Vibrant and bone-dry, it shows white peach, lemon zest, and green apple over a flinty minerality, with bright acidity and a saline finish.

2025 Müller-Ruprecht Pinot Noir Rosé
Müller-Ruprecht is a family-owned winery in Germany's Pfalz region that has become one of our favorites for its authentic, low-intervention approach and vibrant, terroir-focused wines. Their Pinot Noir Rosé is made entirely from Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir), a grape that thrives in the Pfalz's warm climate while retaining lively acidity. The 2025 rosé is crisp, dry, and wonderfully refreshing, with aromas of wild strawberry, raspberry, citrus peel, and a touch of fresh herbs. Its bright acidity and mineral finish make it an ideal summer wine, showcasing the elegance that German Pinot Noir can achieve.

2024 Seehof Riesling Feinherb
Weingut Seehof, run by the Fauth family in Germany's Rheinhessen region, has earned an outstanding reputation for producing Rieslings that balance purity, precision, and exceptional value. The winery farms limestone-rich vineyards around Westhofen, an area famous for some of Germany's finest white wines. "Feinherb" means just off-dry, offering a touch of residual sweetness beautifully balanced by Riesling's naturally vibrant acidity. The 2024 vintage is fresh and expressive, showing notes of ripe peach, apricot, citrus, and delicate floral aromas. The hint of sweetness softens the wine without making it overtly sweet, making it especially versatile with spicy foods, seafood, or simply on its own.