Tag: ghvino

Good work, sister: The rise of women wine makers in Georgia

Special thanks to Erica Firpo for helping me with the title Marina and Tea of Mandili presenting their wine at Vignaioli Naturali a Roma 2015 an annual natural wine fair in Rome >Last spring I met Georgia’s first female owned wine company and have had the privilege of following them for an entire year, from […]

Gaanatlos Ruben Tkeshelashvili!

Ruben Tkeshelashvili Some knew him as “The General,” others, simply as Ruben.  He was a qvevri wine maker in Racha, a mountainous region in the Republic of Georgia known for a semi-sweet red wine called Khvanchara. Local legend says that Stalin was a fan of his wine. We were visiting Iago’s Winery last weekend when […]