 Hello, I'm Matthew Horkey, wine author and owner of the site ExoticWineTravel.com, and I'm going to show you four unique and exotic wines available in the U.S. that offer superb value. I spend my entire time traveling around the world finding unique and exotic wines, and I spend a lot of time in Central and Eastern Europe, and that's what I'm going to show you here today. The first wine we have is the Tillia Estate Pinot Gris from Slovenia, the Vipava Valley, beautiful valley in Slovenia, Pinot Gris, widely planted here. This is a perfect alternative for people that love Pinot Grigio, but maybe want to show something different than Italian style. This is an outstanding producer in Vipava Valley, a small family-run estate that focuses on Pinot Graves, especially Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir, which is also available in the U.S. You know, I think that Pinot Gris is all such a delicious zipper, and almost everybody likes it. I think tropical, like a lot of tropical pineapple flavors, star fruit, white peach, mineral notes, maybe some of that flittiness crushed rock that all this wine eats like, wow. Greatest of the beautiful, crisp, clean, and for a wine that can be found under $19 in the U.S., I think, offers a lot of value for money. Now, it's winter season, so people want to find good value red wine. We have three here today. Let's start out with a wine that you can find sometimes at around $11 U.S. Definitely under $18, but sometimes under $11. This is the Tikvesh Vranis Special Selection from North Macedonia, small country right above Greece. Vranis is a grape that delivers a lot of color, a lot of flavor, a lot of tannins, a lot of acidity. I think people that like Zinfandel's will really like it. It's actually related to the grape, and Tikvesh is a fantastic producer. By the way, for all the wines I'm using, I used my new Corvind Pivot and my Corvind Model 6 here. I think these make great gifts for wine lovers because it allows you to preserve the wines for weeks, months, or even years. And in the case of the Model 6, you never even have to pull the cork. We actually have a discount code for 10% off all systems and accessories at Corvind Shop. I'll put that up on the screen right now, back to the wine. So this Vranis is only aged in concrete, so you're going to think of more pure fruit flavors. A lot of dark cherry kind of pruny notes, plum, even chocolate type notes, and kind of this unique, if you have like a Mediterranean herb mix that you like to sprinkle on meat, you kind of get that sensation as well. Rich, full bodied, full of flavor. And for a wine that you can find in the low teens, also really, really nice value for money. We're moving on to another unique grape from Croatia, Plovac Mali, which is the offspring of the original Zinfandel actually. Plovac Mali is the most widely planted red grape in Croatia. Big, burly, high alcohol, really can be quite tannic at times, perfect for meats during these holiday months. This is the Kamarna 7, Plovac Mali 2016. This is barrel aged. You can find this at CroatianPremiumWine.com, it can be delivered mostly all over the US. It's a little more serious. This is a wine that retails for around 19 US dollars. Now for people that like Mediterranean reds, I'm talking about the south of France, so we're really going to kind of get off on the style. You're going to get a lot of meatiness, some roast, almost like crushed rose petal, some nice cherry flavors, full bodied, lots of complexity, lots of layers. A wine that I think will go great with Christmas dinner. If you're having stuff like baked hams, roast meats type deal, I think this is going to please a lot of people at the table. Really complex wine, especially for a bottle that's around 1999. The last wine is from a unique grape that I love called Xenomavro from Greece. This is the Elfa Estate single vineyard hedgehog Xenomavro 2017. Over 10 years ago, when I first started tasting Greek wines, this bottle, an older vintage was the first Greek wine I've ever had. I personally love this grape Xenomavro. It's for fans that like Nebbiolo, kind of Barolo, Barbaresco, have high acid high tan, some nice pretty flavors. Sometimes you get tar, rose petal, perfume type notes along with some nice sour cherry notes. Let's see if this delivers as well. This also has some of those tari notes, a little bit of floral notes. That's not as perfuming as some examples of Xenomavro, but still really good. Were these two reds moved towards maybe the middle to the darker red fruit spectrum, this is definitely more on the red, red, red fruit spectrum, offers tremendous value. This wine can age to as found in the US for around 20, 21 bucks. All of these wines, I highly recommend the wines that I would love to drink. I hope you get a chance to find them, try them, taste them, stay safe and enjoy your holiday season. Hello. Thanks for watching. Hey, you made it to the end. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, click the bell so you know when new videos are out. For more content like this, check out our Patreon page where you get some behind the scenes exclusive content. Thanks for watching. Cheers. Cheers.