{"id":21071,"date":"2026-02-27T19:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/21071\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:50:14","slug":"geneva-wine-cellars-closing-after-nearly-13-years-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/21071\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva Wine Cellars closing after nearly 13 years \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geneva Wine Cellars and Tasting Room<\/a> owner Al Buchanan announced in the business\u2019 online newsletter<\/a> that it is closing after nearly 13 years.<\/p>\n

Located at the Berry House at 227 S. Third St. in Geneva<\/a>, the company sold wine by the glass, bottle and case. It featured French wines from Burgundy, Rh\u00f4ne, Alsatian, Langudoc-Roussillon and wines from Italy, Spain, Argentina, Chile, Australia and New Zealand. <\/p>\n

The store hosted tastings and education<\/a> about the various features wines \u2013 where they were from, the grapes they were made from and how to swirl them and smell their bouquets.<\/p>\n

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A customer tries some sparking wine at Geneva Wine Cellars and Tasting Room, which just announced its abrupt closure. (Sandy Bressner)<\/p>\n

On weekends, the shop also offered live music.<\/p>\n

\u201cI regretfully announce the imminent closure of Geneva Wine Cellars and Tasting Room,\u201d Buchanan wrote in a message to customers. \u201cWe are closing our doors purely for financial reasons: revenues have consistently decreased over the past three years while operating expenses have continued to increase.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other factors include demographics, reduced wine consumption due to health concerns, increased cannabis use, \u201cas well as general economic fear and malaise and recent tariffs on European wines,\u201d Buchanan wrote. <\/p>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that President Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/a> are illegal.<\/p>\n

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Wine for sale at Geneva Wine Cellars and Tasting Room, located at 227 S. Third St., is a wine store and wine bar, serving and selling wines by the glass, bottle and case. (Sandy Bressner)<\/p>\n

\u201cThese factors and others have caused sharp drops in revenues affecting the entire wine industry,\u201d Buchanan wrote. \u201cDecreased revenues combined with increased operating expenses have caused some of the largest winemaking operations in the United States to recently close their doors. Sadly, we join them today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The store is having a going-out-of-business sale this weekend to clear out its inventory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI opened Geneva Wine Cellars and Tasting Room in 2013 with big dreams,\u201d<\/a> Buchanan wrote. <\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past twelve-plus years owning this business I have made so many friends and had so many wonderful experiences. I treasure all of them. It was a good run, but it is time for me to move forward with new challenges including my busy law practice,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geneva Wine Cellars and Tasting Room owner Al Buchanan announced in the business\u2019 online newsletter that it is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1979,114,900,65,898,899,13900],"class_list":{"0":"post-21071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eyes-on-enterprise","11":"tag-geneva","12":"tag-kane-county","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-wine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}