Tbilvino Alazani Red 2022
Once, Tbilvino was the largest wine company in the Soviet Union. Much has changed since the fall of the Iron Curtain. In the early 90's by the entrepreneurial brothers Giorgi and Zura Margvelashvili bought the winery with the help from the World Bank. They had very different plans: to give the wines their typical Georgian identity back and to produce quality instead of quantity.
| Country | Georgia |
| Region | Kakheti |
| Wine maker | Tbilvino |
| Grape varieties | Saperavi |
| Terroir | The vineyards of Kacheti are located in a valley at the foot of the Caucasus, at an altitude of 200 to 700 meters. They take advantage of the cool wind that descends from the Caucuses. The climate is warm to subtropical with dry summers and mild winters with often snow. Soils are predominantly alluvial clay and loam with calcareous subsoil, with patchwork of shale, sandstone, siltstone, quartz, granite, basalt, schist and schist. |
| Yield per hectare | 10 tons per hectare. |
| Vinification | After four days of fermentation at 25/27°C with the skins, the wine is pressed and the fermentation is finished in stainless steel tanks. The relatively warm ferments give the final wine a meatier character. |
| Did you know? | The Alazani Valley in Georgia has been making wine continuously for eight thousand years. It is the oldest wine region in the world. |