We tried a bottle of this wine the other day with food: beef steak. This Georgian wine well made from grapes indigenous to the Kakheti region. The grapes are well suited to the soil and climate. The wines are fermented in amphorae which are buried into the ground and lined with beeswax. The wine is produced by a superb wine maker, and you can tell that the traditional methods of production come through into the wine. The wine has a taste and character of its own. It is of full body and is concentrated and complex and has a deep fruity flavour. The wine remains on the palate for a long time. It is a wine for drinking with food and it should be savoured and not sloshed back.
We drank our wine too young it will improve in the bottle for ten years. We will search out this wine and buy some bottles for further keeping.
Georgia was probably the region of the world where wine was first produced in Neolithic times more than 8,000 years ago. Wine production in this area is fully entwined in the culture of Georgia. There are not many wine production areas which ferment the wine in amphorae.
At around £20 a bottle it is not cheap, but it is worth searching out. It's a delight.
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