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Wine vessels of every shape, size, and design have been the crucial part of pottery in Georgia for millennia. Ancient artifacts attest to the high skill of local craftsmen. Among vessels, the most ubiquitous and unique to Georgian wine-making culture are probably the Kvevris, very large earthenware vessels with an inside coat of beeswax.
Georgia is the national leader in the production of wine from the Muscadine grape. [ 1 ] In 2014, the multi-state Upper Hiwassee Highlands , which encompasses three counties in northwestern Georgia and across the border into two counties in southwestern North Carolina toward the Tennessee border, was recognized as the state's first American ...
Mukuzani (Georgian: მუკუზანი muk’uzani) is a dry red Georgian wine made from Saperavi grapes in Mukuzani, Kakheti. Mukuzani is distinct from the other wines made from the same grapes in that it is aged in oak casks for a longer time – at least three years. Mukuzani has a deep red color with a soft smoky scent of oak and ...
Usakhelauri (უსახელაური) is a naturally semi-sweet Georgian wine.The Usakhelauri grape, from which Usakhelauri red wine is made, is grown on the mountain slopes of the Lechkhumi, in western Georgia, [1] mainly near the villages of Okhureshi, Zubi (Tsageri) and Isunderi.
Saperavi (Georgian: საფერავი; literally "paint, dye, give color") is an acidic, teinturier-type grape variety native to the country of Georgia, where it is used to make many of the region's most well-known wines. [1]
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Rkatsiteli was the most widely planted grape variety in the Soviet Union and, by 1978, was responsible for 18% of all Soviet wine production. [2] There it was used to make everything from table wine to liqueurs to Sherry-like fortified wine. Before President Gorbachev's vine pull scheme, it was possibly the world's most widely planted white ...
The grape is reputed to be one of the oldest and greatest of the Georgian varieties, but is also reported by the Geilweilerhof database as a selected seedling of Muscat of Alexandria. [citation needed] This may reflect two varieties, the Alexandrouli wine grape and the table grape Alexandriuli Muscat.