Pheasant’s Tears 2020s are glowing and this Mtsvane riveted me. Of late, Gela and John have been less religious about traditional six-to-eight-month skin contact and this could be exhibit 1... read more →
Made by Arkadi Robakidze in Gogita Makaridze’s winery in Terjola and dedicated to their friend Kirile who passed in 2018. And what a tribute this traditional western Georgian grape blend... read more →
Archil Guniava has two hectares of grapes in Imereti, Georgia. He’s a beautiful farmer and winemaker. This krakhuna also includes minute bits of tsitska and tsolikouri and enjoyed the full... read more →
On first sip, this wine earned my double-take. What the hell is that? And then it just got more and more fascinating. Destemmed and pressed off after eight days of... read more →
Tako Juruli (Zhuka) and Zura Sanodze (Sano) stumbled upon an old house in Telavi and thought they’d put the vineyard and marani to use. They tapped the right people to... read more →
The white chinuri grapes come from the family’s home vineyard and the red tavkveri from a neighbor's in Kartli. The tavkveri is destemmed and pressed. Seven days into fermentation, in... read more →
Dato used to sell his grapes to all the right people, then he decided to get into the game himself. This is his rosé, though technically it could be called... read more →
Well if I were part of the Dato team, I’d call this the rosé and the rosé amber but no one asked me. Chkhaveri is a gris grape and the... read more →
Even though based in Australia, Mitchell Sokolin and Boris Portnoy have planted grapes in Kakheti where they are building a marani. While work is underway, they are buying organic grapes and making... read more →
Michael Chonishvili became a full-time winemaker in 2015 and works his two hectares in the Kurdghelauri village, near Telavi's Tsinandali micro-zone. All of the wines I've tasted wines are gorgeous... read more →