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Georgian winemaking has very old roots and is underappreciated internationally. Great place to visit if you want to sip and talk good wine around many other win

Georgian winemaking has very old roots and is underappreciated internationally. Great place to visit if you want to sip and talk good wine around many other wine lovers (lots of home grown cha cha too)

madcaptenor 3y ago
To clarify: Tbilisi, not Atlanta. (People in Georgia, US try to grow wine but it is not good.)
- VyseofArcadia 3y ago
  Actually, West Georgia/East Alabama had a history of wine production before prohibition. It's very slowly coming back as century-old alcohol laws slowly get repealed. (And then unrepealed, and then rerepealed. It's been rocky.) You might be better off trying wines made with the muscadine, North America's own native grape, as it tends to handle hot and humid conditions better than traditional wine grapes.
fsckboy 3y ago
I am super into the international wine scene, and I have friends who are super into the international wine scene, and these friends are actually graduate students studying the Georgian language, and they spend significant time in Georgia. Georgian wine--I won't classify it as good or bad but rather--is concentrated, thick, and rich. If that's your flavor profile, go for it. winemaking around the world has changed dramatically in over the last 40 years due to much more sophisticated university study and programs in winemaking. Much more control can now be exercised over the winemaking process to ensure the profile you want, on top of the essential nature of the terroir involved. I don't know how much Georgia is participating in this process or if it remains traditional. Italian wine forty years ago was generally pretty horrible, and now it is my favorite. To me, it's not a matter of parochialism, just the flavor profile I like. That period of time generally represents the younger university educated children inheriting the vineyards from the "farmer" older generations.

madcaptenor 3y ago

To clarify: Tbilisi, not Atlanta. (People in Georgia, US try to grow wine but it is not good.)

VyseofArcadia 3y ago
Actually, West Georgia/East Alabama had a history of wine production before prohibition. It's very slowly coming back as century-old alcohol laws slowly get repealed. (And then unrepealed, and then rerepealed. It's been rocky.) You might be better off trying wines made with the muscadine, North America's own native grape, as it tends to handle hot and humid conditions better than traditional wine grapes.

fsckboy 3y ago

I am super into the international wine scene, and I have friends who are super into the international wine scene, and these friends are actually graduate students studying the Georgian language, and they spend significant time in Georgia. Georgian wine--I won't classify it as good or bad but rather--is concentrated, thick, and rich. If that's your flavor profile, go for it. winemaking around the world has changed dramatically in over the last 40 years due to much more sophisticated university study and programs in winemaking. Much more control can now be exercised over the winemaking process to ensure the profile you want, on top of the essential nature of the terroir involved. I don't know how much Georgia is participating in this process or if it remains traditional. Italian wine forty years ago was generally pretty horrible, and now it is my favorite. To me, it's not a matter of parochialism, just the flavor profile I like. That period of time generally represents the younger university educated children inheriting the vineyards from the "farmer" older generations.