Tag: Republic of Georgia

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 […]

This Week in Georgian Food, Wine, Travel and Culture News: Week of 23/02-01/03

Week of 23/02-01/03 Over 500 Artists to Perform at GEM Fest 2017 in Georgia GEM Fest is a month long EDM festival held in Anklia for the third time. At the time of publication, only 15% of artists had been announced, but more than 500 artists are expected to perform. More information about the event […]

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 […]

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 […]

Adjika Will Bring World Peace: Apricot Adjika Jam

Vendor at the market in Tbilisi who sells decent adjika paste. Whenever friends ask me why I fell in love with Georgia, my natural and unscripted response is, “It felt like coming home.” I am not Georgian, I don’t have any familial ties to the country and I don’t speak the language but I still […]

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 […]

Int’l Wine Tourism Conference in Tbilisi, Georgia

Magical Tbilisi At the end of March 2014, I participated in the International Wine Tourism Conference that took place in Tbilisi in the Republic of Georgia. I spoke about wine tourism in Lazio and also participated in a panel on Social Media with fantastic colleagues. The highlight of the conference was the opportunity to participate […]

Churchkhela, Puri and Mzhave Niori at the Tbilisi Market

Tbilisi Food Market I’ll admit that the primary reason I decided to join the International Wine Tourism Conference in Tbilisi,Georgia was for the location. For a few years now, I had been wanting to discover for myself the rich wine and culinary culture of Georgia. I narrowly missed the DWCC post-conference trip from Izmir in […]

Georgia: Here Wine Lives

I had the honor of visiting the Republic of Georgia for the International Wine Tourism Conference in Tbilisi last week. Very few places have impressed me as much or left me with so much desire to come back that I feel pain. Georgia is the cradle of wine.  Wine in Georgia is a tradition of […]