GIORGI NATENADZE
Super Crazy wild wines of 2018 and 2020 vintages
#Chitiskvertskha Tetri (bird's egg white) #Chitistvala Tetri (Bird's eye white) #kharistvala (Bull’s eye red)
​#Tskhenis dzudzu tetri (Horse breast white)
​Where to buy ? - in which countries?
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Forbes names Meskhuri (Georgian) wine among the best of 2020
American magazine Forbes has included a number of Georgian wines on a list of the best wines to look out for in 2020
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Old Vines That Still Make Great Wine
​Giorgi Natenadze’s vines in southern Georgia are true wild vines, many of which climb up trees and have survived invading armies.
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www.themorningclaret.com
Really wild wines from Giorgi Natenadze
by Simon J Woolf
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...t’s a delicate, shy creature with hidden depths and unexpected pungency. Intriguing, but then?
...painstakingly hand-harvested from wild vines up to 400 years old, the liquid takes on a unique almost mythical stature...
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Everything you need to know about natural wines, plus six to try now.   
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www.gourmettravellerwine.com
GIORGI NATENADZE IS THE BEAR GRYLLS OF VIGNERONS..
By Marcus Best
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Natenadze is proud of his country’s tradition of wine. “For Georgians, wine is everything, it is our philosophy, our life, our past and our future, it is our blood,” he says.
           8 000 Years of Continuous
                  Wine Making Tradition
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Georgia is one of the most ancient countries in the world with an uninterrupted tradition of viticulture and winemaking. In fact, cultivated grape pips were discovered that indicate that Georgia has been making wine for some 8000 years, leading experts to believe that Georgia is the birthplace of wine. Georgia is probably the oldest wine country in the world.
525 indigenous grape varieties of Georgia. Nowadays, about 25 varieties are used in the industry
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​                                   About Me

" I have spent much of the past decade traipsing through mountain forests in search of ancient vines growing the way nature intended — up trees. I have found some vines that are more than 100 years old and one that I reckon is more than 400 years old. I have uncovered 40 rare grape varieties in the forests in the south of the country, near the border with Turkey, but I have only been able to identify 24 of them so far. Each year I make a different wine from these ancient varieties at Natenadze’s Wine Cellar in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region" ...
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Films and movies about Giorgi Natenadze's wild grapes and projects