TASTING NOTES: 

Nose: Pretty, floral, red fruit. Peonies, cherry, sweet tarts, red apple skin, wet rocks and limestone, slightly chalky. 

Palate: Bright in the back of the palate with very light body and gentle tannins. Highly recommend serving this wine chilled!

FOOD PAIRING RECOMMENDATION: Wiener schnitzel with lemon and fries or Fried artichokes with lemon

ASHWIN'S REFLECTION: Cviček is a style of wine, and it's Slovenia's national wine, celebrated at a national festival in its honor every May. It's also one of the most legally peculiar wines in Europe, being the only one on the continent with a permitted maximum alcohol content of 10%, which required a special EU exception backed by historical evidence to obtain. 

In addition, it's one of just a handful of red wines that is a legally protected blend of red and white grapes. Cviček developed as a peasant wine in the Dolenjska hills during five centuries of Habsburg rule, but not as the wine the lords and nobles were drinking at court, rather the ones locals were making for themselves. The Zajc family has been making it since the 1800s, in that same Habsburg era, and they're still at it.