"Stop in for one last goodbye before we box up the remaining wines and close the doors on The Wine Gallery for the very last time," Brian Linnean, co-founder of The Wine Gallery and Cafe, at 5 W. Monument Ave., said in an email to customers.
A going-out-of-business wine sale has been underway for a couple of weeks, but, “I still have a few bottles remaining in our inventory that are looking for good homes,” Linnean wrote. “Brian, Lisa, Liza, Mat and I will be opening the doors on Wednesday, May 2nd, from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. for last-minute shopping and to say goodbye to those that didn't make their way in over the past week.”
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Linnean reached an agreement six weeks ago to sell the business and property. The new owners have not yet disclosed details of how the space will be used.
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“We’re going to bring something a little different to downtown,” Paul Pelnar, one of the new owners, told this news outlet in early March. “We’re enthusiastic about the things that are happening down there.”
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Linnean opened The Wine Gallery at the Cannery at East Third Street and Wayne Avenue in 2006, then moved the business to its current address at Main Street and Monument Avenue in January 2010 after buying the building at 5 W. Monument Ave. The Wine Gallery earlier this year won the Dayton.com "Best of 2017" category of "Best Wine Selection (Restaurant)."
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Linnean had started selling wines from a vendor booth in the Second Street Market in downtown Dayton in 2003, and kept that part of the business going until December 2016.
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Linnean also oversees Linda's Restaurant, a family-style breakfast-and-lunch eatery in downtown Xenia, which recently located to 131 Cincinnati Ave. and reopened under the new name of 5 Points Cafe.
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