The Natural Wine Shop for Georgian Wines and Spirits
The Natural Wine Shop for Georgian Wines and Spirits
Ein Rkatsiteli, aber nicht aus Kachetien…
Die Rkatsiteli Traube ist die bekannteste weiße Rebe Georgiens und wird fast ausschließlich in Kachetien kultiviert. Wie erfrischend, dass Alapianis Rkatsiteli in der historischen Region Bolnissi angebaut wird (zwischen Tbilisi und der Grenze zu Armenien), dort wo die allerersten Nachweise der Wein-Kultivierung vor über 8000 Jahren gefunden wurden. Ein frischer Wein mit feiner Säure und wenig Gerbstoffen, dessen Aromen Spektrum sich als eine Komposition aus Weißkirsche, Pfirsich, Mirabelle und einem Hauch Vanille beschreiben lässt.
Grape variety: Rkatsiteli
Wine type: Amber Wein
Vintage: 2020
Region: Khatisopeli, Bolnisi (Kartli)
Origin: Georgien
Wine grower: Merab Mirtskhulava ("Alapiani")
Alcoholic content: 12,5 %
Allergens: Enthält Sulfite
Importeur: Kovacs-Gokieli und Seitz GbR, Pfalzburger Str. 33, D-10717 Berlin, Deutschland
Bottler: Merab Mirtskhulava Alapiani LTD, Dodo Abashidze 9, Tbilisi 0102, Georgia
Behind Alapiani Winery are the two distinctive characters Merab Mirtskhulava and Avto Gigineishvili. The two know each other from the communist military era and can therefore trust each other truly blindly. Merab is the master on the vine and in the Marani, Avto takes care of all financial matters and the awareness of the brand Alapiani.
They have been producing natural wines in two climatically different regions of Georgia for several years now: in the Kakhetian dry-hot East in Vazisubani and in the interior Kartli near Okami. There, grape varieties such as Chinuri and Shavkapito grow about 550 m above sea level, where the soil is predominantly alluvial carbonated. Alapiani produces exclusively Qvevri wines according to old Georgian winemaking methods without any additives, they are fermented spontaneously and not filtered. Their wines combine ancient history, passion and skill and take the tradition of Georgian viticulture to new heights in a noble yet modest way. Georgian through and through, delicious and exciting, yet refined and precise.
At the end of 2019, they opened their own small bar in the heart of the old city of Tbilisi, where you can enjoy their natural wines and those of other exquisite natural winemakers.
