Georgia Wine Trail: Kakheti

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2. The route and pace

   We discuss the 5D / 4N starting itinerary, your preferred stays and how much you want to fit in. Any changes depend on availability and are agreed in your written plan.

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The route we start from

These are the stages published for this trip. A stage can cover part of a day or several days; it is not a separate travel day.

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.

What this trip lists

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