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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.

01/25/2026

My friends, I had planned to make this post on a hopeful joyous note, and still will do my best. The events in Minnesota recently and yesterday have made my heart very heavy 💔

Now, my only real goal this year for Cittavino is to bring us together in community and joy. We are better together. I am convinced the only way we will survive this harsh world is to stay connected (grounded).

Come on down to Enoteca Molinari for a late afternoon succulent propagation session. All will be supplied and you can make as many bouquets as your heart desires. Attendees will also receive a wooden wine box for future planting with the option to paint and customize should you need more crafting and creative fulfillment, as well as a succulent propagation and care card.

We will be turning this into some sort of fundraising for anti-ICE forces in Minnesota. I have already donated some $, but if you have the means to give, go to the link 🌳 to find out how.

01/10/2026

2026 Vision Board 💫

1. Be inquisitive. And an occasional 🚬 (maybe?) won’t kill you
2. Drink bubbles
3. Perfect the 🍕 napoletana
4. Make and eat more 🍝
5. Grow hella vege and keep dreaming/working towards my best life of owning land and growing enough fruit and vegetables for my family + to give away to my friends.
6. Stay quiet, observe, have my 🍰 and eat it too
7. Never forget that at ♥️, I’m a bad B!+€h

12/13/2025

Friends, it’s been a year. Political upheaval, my brain breaking off and on, overwhelm, despair, war… it’s been lot for my little soul to handle. I chose to take this year and evaluate wtf I need in life to feel like a whole, sane person. I like doing and giving and showing up for my people, but I had a year of almost giving in to the paralysis but I really had no choice. My body and mind decided for me and my being was at their will. I still did, and gave, and showed up for my people, despite it not being displayed here on social media or Cittavino newsletters. The website needs updating, the warehouse needs organizing, all my emails need not to begin with “sorry for the delay”… but I needed to take everything down notches. I needed to craft and build with my hands, to carve out intentional time with my parents, my sisters, my nephews, my most amazing lover-partner, and my little Doggie girl who is, safe to say, my soulmate (i think only animals and pets can be actual soulmates to us humans)—To stay connected with the friends and people that make me feel like me.

There was a lot of shame to wade through, and though it was hard, I do feel that in this 39th year (despite a surprise birthday 🎉 window shattering), I am on my way up and out of this mud puddle.

Thank you for sticking by me, your patience. While perhaps so not in the open, I have been drinking bubble, laughing, and experiencing true joy. JOY. That is the theme of 2026 and 39. 🥂

12/06/2025

What do you have going on tomorrow?

Cittavino is hosting a tasting with Bruno de Concilis from from 12-3.

Bruno will guide us through his three wines made from Fiano and Aglianico from the unique quartz soils of the Cilento.

Yours truly will be slinging 🍕 Napoletana and panettone with zabaglione 👩🏽‍🍳 💋

Check out the link 🌳 for more details and menu.

#🍕

08/18/2025

Ferrragosto is back!

Join us Saturday August 30th in Oakland for the last Summer celebration. This year’s theme is Western Sicily… 6+ wines, and tons of food. The menu goes live on Wednesday.

Early Bird tickets are still available, but will disappear tomorrow 💨👻

Check out the link 🌳 for details. As always, kids under 12 are free, the wine and food unlimited, and vibes priceless.

➡️ for scenes from last year’s Ferragosto!

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.

♥️

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

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 🌳

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

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 ♥️ ♥️

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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