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An Orange Wine for Orange Wine Lovers

2016 Do Re Mi Khikhvi a delicious ORANGE wine

The Classic Rkatsiteli

Tasting Orgo Rkatsiteli 2013

This Week in Georgian Food, Wine, Travel and Culture 16/02-22/02

Week of 16/02-22/02 Taste of Tbilisi: Georgia’s Capital Beyond the Food Tours (16/02) Lists 5 different restaurants within Tbilisi. One is Wine House Sirajkhana, which they say is one of the best places to taste authentic Georgian wines. It does mention Culinary Backstreets Tbilisi in a sentence in the intro as a company that can […]

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 […]

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 […]

Rare Georgian Wines at the 2015 New Wine Festival in Tbilisi

“Other Varieties” I attended the Opening Ceremony of the 2015 Tbilisi New Wine Festival on the 8th of May as a guest of the Georgian Wine Club. The stunning views over the city from the hosting Funicular Restaurant were certainly magnificent, a perfect choice to open this now annual event. This year’s theme was “Other […]

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 […]

Special Tasting with Eko Glonti of Lagvinari in Rome

SOLD OUT!! On Thursday, February 5 at 19:30 Beppe e i suoi formaggi will host producer Georgian wine producer Eko Glonti as he will personally present seven natural wines from Lagvinari, the company he founded in Kakheti. Eko Glonti, Gurian Renaissance man, doctor, geologist and vigneron makes some of the most exquiste wines in Georgia. […]