Georgia Wine Trail: Kakheti

Highlights

• Qvevri cellar tours + tastings
• Traditional supra feast
• Sighnaghi 'city of love'
• Bodbe & Alaverdi monasteries
• Vineyard-stay night

Is it right for you?

Seniors

Good for seniors: Most days are cellar visits and long seated lunches, with easy walking between vineyards

Getting around

Little walking

Children

This trip is built around wine tasting, so it suits older children and teenagers better than young kids

From our own trip notes. Tell your captain about anyone's mobility, age or food needs and we confirm the details for your dates.

The story

Your journey outline

Each stage can cover one or more days. Tell us what you would change; your final itinerary is agreed before booking.

1. Stage 01 Tbilisi

   Land in Tbilisi and spend the evening in the old town, which is the right introduction: sulphur-smelling brick, wooden balconies and a fortress above. Dinner is a supra, the Georgian feast, run by a toastmaster who will make speeches throughout and expect you to drink to each of them.

2. Stage 02 To Kakheti

   East into Kakheti, about two hours. The first cellars are family operations rather than estates, and the wine comes out of qvevri, clay vessels buried to the neck in the floor, a method around eight thousand years old and now UNESCO-listed. Sighnaghi for the sunset, a walled hill town over the Alazani valley.

3. Stage 03 Wine Day

   A full day of qvevri cellars with the families who run them, which in practice means being fed as much as poured for. Amber wine made on the skins, saperavi so dark it stains the glass, and chacha at the end, which is grape spirit and should be treated with respect. A supra to finish.

4. Stage 04 Monasteries

   Bodbe monastery in the morning, where St Nino is buried, with its cypress avenue and the valley beyond. Alaverdi Cathedral after, an eleventh-century church standing alone in vineyards with monks still making wine on site. The night is at a working vineyard rather than a hotel.

5. Stage 05 The Return

   Back to Tbilisi through the hills and the flight home. Four nights, a great many cellars, and the discovery that the oldest winemaking tradition on earth is one almost nobody outside the country has tasted.

Know before you go

• Georgia e-visa/visa-free varies by nationality — we confirm on booking
• Indian residents: 5% GST and 2% TCS on overseas packages
• It's cash-friendly and cheap — carry some lari for villages

Policies

Why book with Travelers Clan

• Your own itinerary. This is a starting point — we agree your route and pace before booking.
• Paperwork guidance. Visa requirements and applicable taxes confirmed in your quote.
• Clear payment terms. Deposit and cancellation conditions set out before payment.
• Know your support. Your final plan confirms local contacts and any guide or trip-captain services.