Republic of georgia wine. Is now georgias 10 th largest export market for wine. Shop the best selection prices on over 8000 different wines online in store. In georgia wine has been made for more than 8000 yearsand people have been raising their glasses and toasting one another over tables filled with extraordinary food for just as long.
On the rise. Georgia the eurasian nation rather than the us state is one of the worlds oldest winemaking countriesthe key wine grapes favored in georgia are the red grape variety saperavi and the white grape rkatsiteli. Due to the many millennia of wine in georgian history and its prominent economic role the traditions of wine are considered entwined with and.
Georgia exported 466056 bottles of wine to the united states in. Export of wines from republic of georgia to us. Buy wine from the country of georgia at total wine more.
Everyone in the soviet union knew it thanks to wine the greatest gift the republic of georgia gave mankind. Ghvino vino for at least 8000 years. Georgia is one of the oldest wine regions in the worldthe fertile valleys and protective slopes of the transcaucasia were home to grapevine cultivation and neolithic wine production georgian.
These are the classic varieties of the former soviet republics from kyrgyzstan and kazakhstan to moldova and ukrainea number of other long established varieties are widely. Georgian wine is exploding in washington dc in 2018. A eurasian country bordered by russia to its north turkey armenia and azerbaijan to its south and the black sea along its western border the republic of georgia is one of the worlds oldest winemaking countries.
Archaeological evidence in the caucasas region the area covered by the countries listed above where the european and asian continents merge shows wine production dating back. Its situated between the caucus mountains and the black sea bordering russia turkey armenia and azerbaijan.