Weekly Focus Wine at City Vino

Flight is $18 which is two ounces of all four wine
Shared Flight $27 which is three ounces of all four wines
Bundle Flight $49 which Is 2 -two-ounce flights and a charcuterie board
Sail back in time to the ancient Illyrian coast, where ships once ruled the Adriatic and traditions of winemaking took root. From Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia come grapes with names that may be hard to pronounce, yet their flavors feel warmly familiar. These wines bring a touch of the exotic just in time for fall, inviting you to step a little outside the ordinary and into something adventurous. Don’t be afraid to explore—the journey is part of the pleasure!
Wines of Illyria Citluk Stone Cuvee White Bosina Herzegovina 2022 90% Zilavka (Zhi-LAV-kuh) and 10% Bena (BEN-na). Aromas of chamomile, verbena, green apple. Ripe warm flavors of apricot, star fruit, fine minerality, juicy acidity, and a long herbal-tone finish.
Pilizota Babic Coastal Croatia 2019 100% Babic. Aromas of ripe dark fruit, particularly blackberries, blueberries, plums, figs, and licorice. These aromas are accompanied by the typical earthiness of the Babić grape, which is what gives this wine a certain body weight and complexity. A very friendly and intriguing character invites you to keep on sipping.
Wines of Illyria Citluk Blatina Bosnia Herzegovina 2021 100% Blatina. Aroma of red tart cherry, pomegranate, marionberry, violets, warm spice, mineral. Continuing to the palate, add additional flavors of lavender, blackberry, black currant, bramble, tar, black plum, coriander, dried figs, chocolate, roasted almonds, sage, with a black pepper finish.
Wines of Illyria Citluk Winery Vranac Bosnia Herzegovina 2021 100% Vranac. Aromas of sour cherry, red currants, elderberry, rose hip, ripe strawberry. On the palate the red fruits are added to notes of black cherry, blackberry, black plum, light baking spices, dried strawberry and cherry flakes, earthy sweet tobacco, with undertones of elegance minerality, and a pinch of salinity, vanilla, and oak. Acidity lies at medium. Wine has soft tannins and an overall medium body. The intensity flavors increase as the wine is left to open up. Wine has a medium finish.