McPherson Cellars Albarino High Plains Texas 2023
100% Albarino. Pale lemon in color. Delicate and inviting bouquet of butter cream, iris, wildflower, chalk, and bright citrus, lemon-lime, mandarin orange, ripe pineapple, grapefruit, and crisp apple mingle with hints of kumquat and preserved lemon. The p

$19.99

Merkin Vineyards Chupacabra Red Blend Arizona 2023
35% Grenache, 35% Syrah, 30% Mourvedre (2019 Vintage). Traditional Partners. Juicy with warm aromatic spice notes and suggestions of leather, violets, salt, celery bitters, balsamic, anise and white pepper. 

$31.99

Ancient Peaks Winery One Stone Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Paso Robles California 2023
79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Malbec, 5% Merlot, 5% Syrah. Opens with classic varietal aromas of big red flower florals, cherry, black currant, black olive, and graphite, and wet stone. On the palate it continues with juicy, mouth covering notes of black pl

$22.99

Hedges CMS Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley Washington State 2021
78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, 2% Syrah. Deep ruby in color.  Developing aromas of toasty oak, bramble, herbs, spice, green peppercorn, rose petals, and violets. Additional flavors on the palate include black currant, black plum, bramble, black curra

$26.99

Flight Tasting-
Flights include four 2 ounce samples of this week's focus wines

$18.00

Flight Wine Bundle with Charcuterie Board
2 Wine Flights and a cheese and charcuterie plate for two. A flight is 2 ounces of four different wine from our focus weekly set. 

$49.00

City Vino University - Bonarda: The Underdog Superhero of Argentina
Sept 6th, 7:00PM to 8:30PM -- Tickets include a flight of wine and small snack

$40.00

City Vino University - Digging into Downtown Drinking
Sept 27th at 7:00 PM. Tickets include a flight of wine and a light snack.

$40.00

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From Elephants to Elegance: The Wines of Savoy

Savoie, sometimes spelled Savoy: Two different pronunciations have surfaced, perhaps as a regional thing. The first is “Sav-wa,” and the second is “Sav-oi.” It’s kind of like the difference between saying cow or bovine. This tiny little pimple of France has been endowed with viticulture for at least 2,000 years. What is the viticultural history of Savoy? Where is it exactly? What grapes are grown here? What bottle of wine would you expect City Vino to have on the shelf? Let us dive in.

Wine History of the Canary Islands

The Guanches: One reference indicated that the Guanches might have been in the Canary Islands in the first millennium B.C. and were the first ones to inhabit the islands. About this time, the Phoenicians and Romans were pushing expansion limits all around the Mediterranean and up the Portugal coast, but there seems little evidence to support expansion beyond the Mediterranean and southward.