Santa Takes Flight this week! Weekly Focus wines at City Vino

🎅🍷 The Flight of Santa is taking off. Travel the globe in four glasses as Santa makes festive stops in Australia, Italy, South Africa, and Spain—each pour showcasing a distinct sense of place and style. From elegant whites to bold reds, this holiday wine flight proves that even Santa has excellent taste. Perfect as a gift to yourself—or for that wine lover in your life who’s impossible to shop for.
**Vasse Felix Filius Chardonnay Margaret River Australia 2023 **100% Chardonnay. Vibrant fruit-based aromas of green apple, lemon-lime, pear, peach, passion fruit, with white flowers, and cream. Flowing to the palate, flavors of lemon curd, sour tart-Pezz, orange peel, ripe pineapple, toast, warm wood tones, burnt sugar, vanilla, brioche, warm bread, and toasted almonds. Memorable long finish of croissant and spicy oak.
**Russiz Superiore Cabernet Franc Collio DOC Friuli–Venezia Giulia Italy 2022 **100% Cabernet Franc. Aromas of raspberry, strawberry, red currant, and subtle red flowers mingle with soft, integrated herbaceous hints and a touch of toast. On the palate, flavors of black cherry, red berries, mild oak, and gently nutty notes, suggestive of almond. It finishes with lingering red fruit and delicate herbal undertones.
Keermont Merlot Stellenbosch South Africa 2020 90% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc, 4% Malbec. Soft aromas of violets, blossoms, black plum, blueberry, dusty, mulberry, with a touch of dried herbs, cigar box, vanilla, and cloves. Further explored on the palate blackberry, black pepper, bread dough and cedar. Balance is achieved between the black plummy-ness fresh fruit, churning into dried black fruit and earthy notes. This has an elegant, medium-plus, succulent, dry finish.
Bodegas Alto Moncayo Veraton Campo de Borja Spain 2021 100% Grenache. Floral violets with red cherry leather, mushroom, herbal thyme, and oregano. On the palate lavender strawberry, black cherry, blackberry-blueberry bramble, oak, vanilla, marzipan, dark chocolate, leather, earth, with faint notes of black pepper, granite, cassis, eucalyptus. Flavor churn and develops as the wine opens up. Concentrated adding body and finish which lingers for delightfully long time.