Tag: natural wine

A Rose by any other name is Rkatsiteli?

Rkatsiteli Vardo, rare grape from Kakheti made by Chateau Khashmi

The Classic Rkatsiteli

Tasting Orgo Rkatsiteli 2013

This Week in Georgian Food, Wine, Travel and Culture News: 21/04 to 27/04 2017 

This week in Georgia

Wine Wednesday: Gurian flavor, Imereti style

Gaioz Sopromadze’s 2009 Chkhaveri wine tasting. Georgian wine

Wine Wednesday: A Tsolikouri of the Ages

Lagvinari Tsolikouri 2013

Wine Wednesday on International Women’s Day

Tragedy gave birth to International Women’s Day in 1908, and the world still has a loooong way to go until we reach universal equality for all genders. But this is not a political post, it is a post to celebrate women and wine.  There has been, lately, an undertone of mansplaining in the world of […]

Why Georgia?

By Sarah May Grunwald Considering the long hiatus I’ve taken from blogging here, I had to ask for advice from a writers’ group I’m in. Projects, life, art, work… they’ve all gotten in the way of writing about Georgia, and distractions aside I find it difficult to write about Georgia anyway because Georgia is so […]

Eko Glonti of Lagvinari Part 1

“Gaumarjos!” Victory! To Georgia!” The ubiquitous Georgian host breaks bread and all around the table are satiated and happy. Why not? It’s been a stimulating evening of conversations and arguments. An evening, it feels, that’s been repeated many times over the last year or so. There’s that infamous tablecloth, the high ceilings, the rooms full […]

The Best Wine Bars in Tbilisi

Georgia’s capital city, Tbilisi, is a fun and exciting city for travellers to enjoy its rich tapestry of colliding cultures, eat fantastic Georgian cuisine and drink wine from all of Georgia’s wine regions. As the capital of the land that gave us wine 8000 years ago, it’s no surprise that Tbilisi offers up some of […]

Pét Nat Craze Hits Georgia

  Living dangerously. Iago opens his first sparkling wine Natural wine aficionados will no doubt be familiar with the term “Pét Nat” which is short for Pétillant Natural, a style of sparkling wine otherwise known as Methode Ancestrale, a traditional style of sparkling wine production that dates back centuries, a style of wine that is […]