Cittavino & Co.

Cittavino & Co. We are a California based online wine retail with a selection of curated Italian wines, focusing in southern Italy. Cittavino & Co. Cin cin!

We are curious about wine and place make our own cool maps. Cittavino & Co(mmunity) is about serving the people and educating the consumer A California based, interactive wine shop featuring a selection of Italian wines curated for the curious consumer. Whether you want to expand your wine vocab, understand how to pair wine with food, geek out over soil and wine region maps, or just enjoy delish

wine with friends and family, Cittavino & Co. is a space for any and all of your wine interests. We spend the time researching and selecting the best wines available at various price points, you choose your experience. believes that building community and engaging with what we consume is the foundation for good business, good wine drinking, and overall good living.

Many have been asking me about the impending EU tariffs. In 2019 during the first Trump Administration, 25% tariffs were...
04/26/2025

Many have been asking me about the impending EU tariffs. In 2019 during the first Trump Administration, 25% tariffs were added onto EU exports destined for the United States. The Biden administration left many of the initial Trump tariffs intact. We now face a 20% increase (10% now, 10% later?), which would mean a 45% increase in tariffs on EU goods imported into the US in the last 6 years. Will wine prices be affected?

Yes, of course. But the unique relationships among the wine community and it being a three tiered system mean there is more integrity and opportunity to split up the burden. I’m not so sure the same is true for larger food corporations. I also think we have an opportunity here to come together and say 🖕🏼

Check out the most recent Substack! I share statistics, facts, and a little insight from someone who has been working closely with Italian wine for just about 16 years. Ive seen some 💩… 👀

Article in the link 🌳!

Also, please send me questions!!! Here in comments or email. Did a wine you love recently shoot up in price? Likely not due to the tariffs but the fear of… keep me in the loop and I’ll do some research for you.

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Oh hay, hiiii!! I’m here and been here, I promise. Working full time in addition to running my sweet Cittavino + the imp...
04/25/2025

Oh hay, hiiii!! I’m here and been here, I promise. Working full time in addition to running my sweet Cittavino + the impending apocalypse has really made posting on social media a challenge. But exciting things have been happening, like our rad Festa della Donna celebrations in LA and Oak (see amazing photos from LA).

Currently, I’m working on a website rebuild because let’s be real, she needs an update! And more events and tastings.

I just wrote an article about the Tariffs and how they will affect wine access and prices. It took me some real time as I wanted to provide not just my opinion, but analysis of facts and stats. Check it out on the Substack!

There’s so much more to catch up on, but expect to hear from me more!

🥂 Saluti,

Emilia

Los Angeles, what can we say? This Festa celebration was our best one yet. Thank you for coming out and uplifting us in ...
03/11/2025

Los Angeles, what can we say? This Festa celebration was our best one yet. Thank you for coming out and uplifting us in a way we couldn’t even have imagined. Everyone brought such positive energy, our Venetian Hour ladies .la and with her amazing focaccia sent such a reverberating vibe down the spine of the event. Collaborations and community gave Festa della Donna such a charge ⚡️✨

📸 photos, I want to post them all. They are so perfect.

Oakland, do you have your tickets yet? Your Festa is coming up this Sunday 3/16

🎟️ in the link 🌳

Folks, it’s March 1st and officially Women’s History Month! Two events in two cities.LA is close to selling out 😱, get y...
03/01/2025

Folks, it’s March 1st and officially Women’s History Month!

Two events in two cities.

LA is close to selling out 😱, get your tickets for next Saturday! So much food and so much wine. We’re busting out the affogato station again this year.

Olivia will be cooking up a storm and featuring a large grazing table of her fresh farmer’s market specialties and finds. We just finalized our passed tasting menu, and yes the FRITTO MISTO IS CONFIRMED 🦐 🐟 🦑

We are also pouring so much woman made wine. It’s insane, 9 different wines from southern Italy and California! The wine line up is live via the event page (head to the link 🌳) but if you want to scope them out directly here:

from Menfi, Sicily - were pouring her Perricone red and Nero d’Avola rosato
wines , Cesanese Rosato

white blend with some skin contact

Fuori Bianco, orange blend
bajjalieh is our headliner! And we’re pouring three wines from her line up, made from Italian varieties grown in CA.

In our tumultuous climate, we also think it important to show up and support our non-binary friends, lovers, family this month. Let’s be together ✊🏽 15% of on site bottle sales will go towards nonprofits supporting gender affirming care

We’re back! Join us for our annual Festa della Donna celebration in LA on Saturday, March 8th. Bring your girlfriend, si...
02/22/2025

We’re back! Join us for our annual Festa della Donna celebration in LA on Saturday, March 8th. Bring your girlfriend, sister, mother, non-binary lover—all your femme loving folks!—to enjoy an artisanal wine and food event spotlighting local women-owned businesses. Little Hat is cooking up southern Italian street food and Cittavino & Co is pouring women made wines from southern Italy and California, with head lining. This year we’re bringing even more women into the fold for an extra decadent Venetian Hour with desserts from Domenica Dinette, Leena Culhane, Breakwater Bakery, Le Zette, and more. Plenty of bottles will be available for purchase on site, with 15% of proceeds from sales donated to nonprofits supporting gender affirming care. We can’t wait to see you there.

🎟️ link in bio & the link 🌳

Thank you to bringing up wines and for sourcing the .wines that are so dear to our ♥️ ♥️

Wine Grams are here! Send a little message of ♥️ to any one of your 🍯sFill out the 1 minute form in the LINK 🌳 and I hel...
02/08/2025

Wine Grams are here! Send a little message of ♥️ to any one of your 🍯s

Fill out the 1 minute form in the LINK 🌳 and I help you pick a wine based on interests and personality. Then I box it up and send it off.

It’s easy, straightforward and super cute with a love note from you in Italian sweet nothings.

Tu sei una meraviglia ✨
You are a wonder

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Tutto Sicilia!A Trapanese pesto 🍝 making kit with Sicilian wine pairings, yes please!All Sicilian ingredients and Busiat...
12/14/2024

Tutto Sicilia!

A Trapanese pesto 🍝 making kit with Sicilian wine pairings, yes please!

All Sicilian ingredients and Busiate pasta from my favorite Libera Terra*. Make an easy and thoughtful dinner for you and your friends.

Choose between Salina island wines or Mt. Etna vini.

A Calabrese 🍝 making kit featuring my July haul straight from Italia. Like Ventresca tuna from Calabria and peperoncino ...
12/11/2024

A Calabrese 🍝 making kit featuring my July haul straight from Italia. Like Ventresca tuna from Calabria and peperoncino 🌶️ from Libera Terra.*

We recently received the 2022 Juru. I’m obsessed with this wine, as you might know, and will drink all iterations of it forever; but the 2022 is so far the best vintage I’ve had. Somehow Gianni extracts the true nature of Gaglioppo without the grape’s 🍇 notorious harsh tannin. And he’s minimal intervention. It’s one of the best Calabrian wines out there and it’s such a micro production (1500 bottles/year) you’re not going to find it anywhere but here, baby. Experience the jewel of Calabria and never turn back.

Check out the Link 🌳 for all Holiday gift baskets.

*Libera Terra is a non profit organization that rehabilitates seized Mafia land, providing living wage jobs and education to the community. These products grow in these seized terrains, and damn, social justice never tasted so good! Libera Terra items are a Cittavino & Co. direct import exclusive, you won’t find them anywhere else in the US.

Holiday gift baskets are up and looking fab! 🍝 pasta making kits with artisanal wine pairings and these cute “let me buy...
12/06/2024

Holiday gift baskets are up and looking fab! 🍝 pasta making kits with artisanal wine pairings and these cute “let me buy you a drink” cocktail kits with OG vintage Culver gold plated glassware 🤩

These COS Sicilian vermouth are the perfect gift for your wine and bev industry friends out there. Skin contact vermouth?! It doesn’t get geekier and more delish than that… except when you add MCM glassware to it.

Today is the last day for Panettone specials. I wanted you all to have one at a below retail price, because the ‘ttone i...
12/02/2024

Today is the last day for Panettone specials. I wanted you all to have one at a below retail price, because the ‘ttone is a gift 🎁 we all deserve. Winter breakfast of toasted panettone and butter is the breakfast of champions.

Prices will go back to standard tomorrow!

‘Brusco & Disco 🪩 last weekend was such a blast! Thanks to all that joined and dressed up! Vibes were charged 💥 💫 What a...
12/02/2024

‘Brusco & Disco 🪩 last weekend was such a blast! Thanks to all that joined and dressed up! Vibes were charged 💥 💫 What a great way to kick off the holiday season. I think we should make this an annual deal.

Thank you to for hosting! And to for pouring and for pouring .

We drank all kinds of Lambruschi and showed up with the Piadine and Bolognese!

Next Saturday!!! We’re collabing with on. Lambrusco in the Wild event. Lambrusco isn’t just a darky inky drink, there’s...
11/17/2024

Next Saturday!!! We’re collabing with on. Lambrusco in the Wild event.

Lambrusco isn’t just a darky inky drink, there’s so much variety within the Lambruschi appellations and varieties and on Saturday we’re tasting the gamut.

A walk around tasting amped up with Italian disco and an opportunity to dress up. I’ll be there sporting my best sparkly jumpsuit.

Emiliana bites provided by

See you there! Click on the link 🌳 for more details and 🎟️

Thanksgiving picks are live! How about a Gragnano, a fizzy red made from the Piedirosso grape in Sorrentino, Campania? ...
11/15/2024

Thanksgiving picks are live! How about a Gragnano, a fizzy red made from the Piedirosso grape in Sorrentino, Campania?

Or instead of Gewurtztraminer, the dry Malvasia di Lipari

Also, Cerasuolo 4eva!!!

If you’re out of the CA state, orders in by 11/19 for delivery in time for Thanksgiving! 🦃

Read more about the picks in the link 🌳

Of course, there will be Substack on what dishes to bring to the table! But first… Bucatini all’Amatriciana

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Sometimes a producer visit just sticks with you. I had many moments with these amazing Laziale producers who indulged us...
10/31/2024

Sometimes a producer visit just sticks with you. I had many moments with these amazing Laziale producers who indulged us with all their new experiments and philosophies. They energy is contagious and I find myself, back home, trying to adapt there methods in my little backyard garden. How can I become a part of and aid mother nature’s cycles in my daily life?

I’ve been reminiscing about Joy’s work and . I think I she’s doing important work, that she does out of her own drive and endless curiosity, but inevitably is has and will continue to inspire others.

Joy will be joining us for a virtual Meet the Wjnemaker hang on Saturday November 9th. Please join! I have some La Villana Rose’ ready to ship, full experience available.

Click on the link 🌳 to RSVP

Bay Area, what are you up to next Sunday 11/3?Cittavino & Co. is partnering with Lucidity Wine Merchants to bring you a ...
10/27/2024

Bay Area, what are you up to next Sunday 11/3?

Cittavino & Co. is partnering with Lucidity Wine Merchants to bring you a consumer and trade tasting of the Palmento Costanzo wines from Mt. Etna, Sicily.

We will start with a short seminar introducing the wines (please RSVP in the ticket option. The seminar is not an extra cost but has limited seating) and the various soils and expositions of Mt. Etna. Post seminar, a walk around tasting where you can chat with Emilia Aiello of Cittavino & Co. and Giuseppe LoCascio of Lucidity and indulge in tasty Sicilian bites provided by Little Hat Catering.

Check out the link 🌳 for tickets and more deets

Wrapping up our Wine Club focus on Lazio for the months of September and October.You know, you start something with a vi...
10/15/2024

Wrapping up our Wine Club focus on Lazio for the months of September and October.

You know, you start something with a vision and so much effort and sleepless nights (weeks) and money go into sheep do***ng that dream in the direction you want, or think, it’s supposed to go in. What I could have never anticipated, and still can’t, is how that vision and dream changes and starts taking on a life of its own. That collaborations with the right people are sometimes more important than you controlling that vision or idea.

Cittavino & Co. is about supporting small growers in Italy, it still is, but as I fortunately get to spend more and more time with such devoted and passionate people, I see how they affect my life and daily choices: committing to the backyard garden, farmers market shopping as a norm. Am I living the life my wine lives?

In addition to the wines, what’s notable is that these producers live their lives according to values and principles that they set forth in the vineyard- it’s not a checklist of buzzwords, it’s a cyclical investment into enriching their lives, those around them, while being agricultural custodians. Each of these producers does more than wine, and at times were more enthusiastic about sharing their experiments with grain varieties and cheese making then they were wine. Each of them has their own approach to grape growing and even vine training- but all were rooted in some form of regenerative agriculture. They really are revolutionaries and I’m so pumped I get to be a part of it and share it all with you.

1. September’s Wine Club
2. .noro of showing us the Senatore Capelli grain and how they don’t have to replant nearly as often as the norm because of their Biodynamic practices
3. chatting Biodynamics. We had the fortune of trying their Rosciola bottling- they are the only producers in the world with a documented vineyard of this grape. It was f*cking dynamite
4. Joy Kull from showing us her vine training system that saved them from the perospera devastation in 2023
5. chatting Aleatico and volcanic soils with my fellow baddie

Lots going on always, which unfortunately means I can’t get it all on the Gram! But if the Fall ☀️ is having the same ef...
10/07/2024

Lots going on always, which unfortunately means I can’t get it all on the Gram! But if the Fall ☀️ is having the same effect on you as it is me, then you’re ready for more tasting events!

Friday 10/18 I’ll be with and with Vini del Veneto. We teach these wine tasting courses in Italian (with English translation) and you really get a geeky inside view from a pair of Italophiles not just about wine, but Italian culture and cuisine (we bring regional treats!)

11/3 Degustazione ETNA with the wines of and with a brief, but informative (I can geek out in 45min) seminar on the different expositions and terroir of Mt Etna with a walk around tasting and Sicilian treats provided by .la

check out and sign up in the Link 🌳

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Scenes from our Etna Masterclass in April, where we tasted 11 wines, 1 of which a 2014 I brought back in a 🧳 from Vinitaly. There were arancini too…🤤

📸 on some retro 🎞️

Sott’Olio - under oilA quintessential Mediterranean preservation method that yields tender, cured Veges you can reach fo...
10/02/2024

Sott’Olio - under oil
A quintessential Mediterranean preservation method that yields tender, cured Veges you can reach for season round. Up on the Substack is my roasted tomatoes 🍅 sott’olio recipe, inspired by a by chance encounter with these jammy wonders on a stormy day in the Campi Flegrei in Campania.
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Paired with the flinty white from Vesuvio, of course. Rich and textured, a touch of 🍍 on the BBQ. Made from Caprettone. What? Cap 🧢-prey-tone-eh.

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