Secrets Of the Georgian Wine Production

The grape harvest in Georgia is one of the most fascinating and mysterious events in the cultural calendar. The traditions of this festival are rooted in the distant past. Want to feel like a real winemaker? Learn a lot of amazing things about grape harvesting in Kakheti? Take part in the production of real Georgian wine? Discover the many unique culinary recipes and taste the unique mouth-watering Kakheti dishes? Then you will find our unique quest tour to Kakheti!

ACCOMMODATION: 2 nights in Kakheti, 2 nights in Tbilisi

DATES: September-October

DAY 1:  TBILISI

• Arrival in Tbilisi, meeting at the airport with a representative of the company.
• Transfer to the hotel. Check-in at the hotel.
• Welcome dinner in a restaurant with a  show program of national dances. (Overnight at the Hotel in Tbilisi).

* The detailed program of the first day, depends on the flight details of the group.

DAY 2:  KAKHETI (Approx. 130 km.)

• Breakfast at the hotel. Check out.
• Transfer to the Kakheti region - the cradle of wine and winemaking.
• Excursion, stylized as the quest "In search of a lost recipe":
• Visiting objects: City of love – Sighnaghi, the family house of Alexander Chavchavadze in the village of Tsinandali.
•  Lunch in a charming rural house. The hosts will prepare for us a few puzzles, and we will need to find the lost recipe.
• Transfer to the hotel. Check-in at the hotel.
• The game "Try Georgia to taste."
• Dinner and tasting of young wine in one of the cellars of Kakheti.
• Before dinner, we will have fun culinary master classes in Georgian cuisine, which will be held by a hospitable hostess.
• The team should set one Georgian table and appoint a host. We will bake Georgian bread - Shoti in tone, prepare Georgian sweets - Churchkhela. We will surely learn how to make Khinkali correctly. (Overnight at Hotel in Kakheti)

DAY 3: KAKHETI

• Today you will have a unique opportunity to feel like a Georgian winemaker. We are going to harvest to one of the Kakheti winemakers. We wander between the thickets of the vine and admire the ripe juicy berries. Then we will help to collect the grapes, we will learn how the clusters are crushed in Georgia to get delicious juice from them. After hard, but such an exciting job, we will certainly be treated to fresh grape juice.
• Outdoor picnic in vineyard.
• Game - “Feel the difference.”
• Can you distinguish wines Saperavi, Usahelauri and Rkatsiteli without looking at the bottle? Today you will discover the language of wine, learn about tasting techniques. After exploring the world of wine, teams will try everything from the highest quality wines to cheap port. Sommelier secrets will no longer be secrets for you.
• A test awaits you: blindfolded must guess the region of origin, grape variety and the season of its collection, as well as the price range of a number of wines. Participants will be pleasantly surprised with their new skills and abilities!
• In the evening, we are waiting for not just dinner, but a whole intimate feast with toasts full of philosophical meaning to the accompaniment of local songs. Today we will recall dance workshops and prepare one joint dance, which we will dance together for a gala dinner.
• The Georgian feast, or as the Georgians call it “Supra” is a real performance. With its own rules, rituals, traditions - it has no analogues in the world. A feast in Georgia is invariably led by Tamada, he is the one who sets the rules at the table. All secrets of the feast in Georgian, the art of saying toasts, drinking from the horn, the tricks of the Tamada and many other things will be revealed to you today. (Overnight at Hotel in Kakheti)

DAY 4: KAKHETI-TBILISI (Approx. 130 km.)

• Breakfast at the hotel. Check out.
• Transfer to the Tbilisi. Check-in at the hotel in Tbilisi.
• 13:00 Transfer for Lunch and wine degustation in one of the best wine restaurants in Tbilisi.
• Exclusive Wine tasting - choose your wine:
• Look at 6 different regions of Georgia how the wines, cuisine and songs developed in tandem with history and nature.  For this unique comparative tasting we will have 3 dishes from each region accompanied by wine from that region, and songs from that region to really take a gastronomical and cultural journey through Georgia.
• After Lunch we will have the City-tour in Tbilisi.  (Overnights at the hotel in Tbilisi).

DAY 5: TBILISI

• Breakfast at the hotel
• 12:00 Check out and transfer to the airport of Tbilisi

*Prices can be changed according to the currency/dollar exchange rate at the time of booking.

*The hotels can be replaced with similar ones.

* Company has the right to change excursion days and sequence of tourist sites, according to the weather and/or other force-majeure situations.

For more information regarding the prices, please contact our staff . You can find our contact details in the "Contacts" section.