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Georgian wine

Index Georgian wine

Georgia is one of the oldest wine regions in the world. [1]

82 relations: Abkhazia, Adjara, Akhasheni, Alazani, Alazani (wine), Aleksandrouli, Barakoni wine, Belarus, Black Sea, Bordeaux, Burgundy wine, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chinuri, Counterfeit, Crimea, Culture of Georgia (country), Dedoplistsqaro Municipality, French wine, Georgia (country), Georgia–Russia relations, Georgian language, Georgian wine, Gianni, Gori Municipality, Gori, Georgia, Government of Russia, Grape juice, Grapevine cross, Gurjaani, Gurjaani Municipality, Imereti, Irakli Okruashvili, Isabella (grape), Joseph Stalin, Kakheti, Kardanakhi, Kartli, Kaspi Municipality, Kazakhstan, Khashuri Municipality, Kvareli, Kvevri, Latvia, List of Georgian wine appellations, List of wine-producing regions, Mikhail Gorbachev, Moldavia, Mtevandidi, Mtsvane, Mujuretuli, ..., Mukuzani, Neolithic, Old World wine, Poland, Prohibition in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, Racha, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, Rkatsiteli, Rtveli, Saint Nino, Saperavi, Signagi Municipality, Skin-contact wine, South Ossetia, Soviet Union, Telavi, Tetritsqaro Municipality, The New York Times, Transcaucasia, Tsinandali wine, Tsolikouri, Tvishi (wine), Ukraine, UNESCO, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, Usakhelauri, Vinologue, Viticulture, Vitis, Wine, World, Yeast in winemaking. Expand index (32 more) »

Abkhazia

Abkhazia (Аҧсны́; აფხაზეთი; p) is a territory on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, south of the Greater Caucasus mountains, in northwestern Georgia.

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Adjara

Adjara (აჭარა), officially known as the Autonomous Republic of Adjara (Georgian: აჭარის ავტონომიური რესპუბლიკა), is a historical, geographic and political-administrative region of Georgia.

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Akhasheni

Akhasheni is an appellation for wines produced around Akhasheni village, Gurjaani district, Kakheti region in eastern Georgia.

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Alazani

The Alazani (ალაზანი, Qanıx) is a river that flows through the Caucasus.

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Alazani (wine)

Alazani wine takes its name from one of Alazani River (ალაზანი, Qanıx), which forms part of the Georgian border with Azerbaijan in eastern Georgia, before flowing into the Kura River.

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Aleksandrouli

Aleksandrouli (ალექსანდროული) is a Georgian red grape variety.

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Barakoni wine

Barakoni (ბარაკონი) red wine is grown on the steep slopes of the Rioni gorge in the mountainous western region of Racha (modern-day Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti) in Georgia.

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Belarus

Belarus (Беларусь, Biełaruś,; Беларусь, Belarus'), officially the Republic of Belarus (Рэспубліка Беларусь; Республика Беларусь), formerly known by its Russian name Byelorussia or Belorussia (Белоруссия, Byelorussiya), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.

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Black Sea

The Black Sea is a body of water and marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Western Asia.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Occitan: Bordèu) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.

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Burgundy wine

Burgundy wine (Bourgogne or vin de Bourgogne) is wine made in the Burgundy region in eastern France, in the valleys and slopes west of the Saône, a tributary of the Rhône.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the world's most widely recognized red wine grape varieties.

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Chinuri

Chinuri (also known as Kaspuri and Kaspuri White) is a white wine grape variety of high acidity.

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Counterfeit

The counterfeit means to imitate something.

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Crimea

Crimea (Крым, Крим, Krym; Krym; translit;; translit) is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov to the northeast.

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Culture of Georgia (country)

The culture of Georgia has evolved over the country's long history, providing it with a unique national culture and a strong literary tradition based on the Georgian language and alphabet.

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Dedoplistsqaro Municipality

Dedoplistskaro or Dedoplistsqaro (დედოფლისწყაროს მუნიციპალიტეტი, Queen`s spring") is a municipality of Georgia, in the region of Kakheti.

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French wine

French wine is produced all throughout France, in quantities between 50 and 60 million hectolitres per year, or 7–8 billion bottles.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia (tr) is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia.

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Georgia–Russia relations

The relations between Georgia and Russia date back hundreds of years and remain complicated despite certain religious and historical ties that exist between the two countries and their people.

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Georgian language

Georgian (ქართული ენა, translit.) is a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians.

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Georgian wine

Georgia is one of the oldest wine regions in the world.

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Gianni

Gianni is an Italian name (occasionally a surname), derived from the Hebrew Yohanan ("God is gracious", "God is merciful").

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Gori Municipality

Gori (გორის მუნიციპალიტეტი, Goris municiṗaliṫeṫi) is a district of Georgia, in the region of Shida Kartli.

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Gori, Georgia

Gori (გორი) is a city in eastern Georgia, which serves as the regional capital of Shida Kartli and the centre of the homonymous administrative district.

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Government of Russia

The Government of Russia exercises executive power in the Russian Federation.

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Grape juice

Grape juice is obtained from crushing and blending grapes into a liquid.

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Grapevine cross

The grapevine cross (Georgian: ჯვარი ვაზისა, Jvari Vazisa), also known as the Georgian cross or Saint Nino's cross, is a major symbol of the Georgian Orthodox Church and dates from the 4th century AD, when Christianity became the official religion in the kingdom of Iberia (Kartli).

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Gurjaani

Gurjaani (გურჯაანი) is a town in Kakheti, a region in eastern Georgia, and the seat of the Gurjaani Municipality.

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Gurjaani Municipality

Gurjaani (გურჯაანის მუნიციპალიტეტი, Gurjaanis municiṗaliṫeṫi) is a municipality of Georgia, in the region of Kakheti.

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Imereti

Imereti (Georgian: იმერეთი) is a region in Georgia situated along the middle and upper reaches of the Rioni River.

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Irakli Okruashvili

Irakli Okruashvili (ირაკლი ოქრუაშვილი) (born 6 November 1973) is a Georgian politician who had served on various important posts in the Government of Georgia under President Mikheil Saakashvili, including being the Minister of Defense from December 2004 until being dismissed in November 2006.

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Isabella (grape)

The Isabella grape is a cultivar derived from the grape species Vitis labrusca or 'fox grape' which is used for table, juice and wine production.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Kakheti

Kakheti (კახეთი) is a region (Georgian: Mkhare) formed in the 1990s in eastern Georgia from the historical province of Kakheti and the small, mountainous province of Tusheti.

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Kardanakhi

Kardenakhi is a village in Georgian region of Kakheti.

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Kartli

Kartli (ქართლი) is a historical region in central-to-eastern Georgia traversed by the river Mtkvari (Kura), on which Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, is situated.

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Kaspi Municipality

Kaspi (კასპის მუნიციპალიტეტი) is a district of Georgia, in the region of Shida Kartli.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan,; kəzɐxˈstan), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan Respýblıkasy; Respublika Kazakhstan), is the world's largest landlocked country, and the ninth largest in the world, with an area of.

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Khashuri Municipality

Khashuri Municipality (ხაშურის მუნიციპალიტეტი) is a municipality of Georgia, in the region of Shida Kartli.

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Kvareli

Kvareli is a town in northeastern in Kakheti Province, Georgia.

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Kvevri

Kvevri (ქვევრი; also known as churi (ჭური) in Western Georgia) are large earthenware vessels used for the fermentation, storage and ageing of traditional Georgian wine.

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Latvia

Latvia (or; Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika), is a sovereign state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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List of Georgian wine appellations

The following is a list of Georgian wine appellations.

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List of wine-producing regions

This list of wine-producing regions catalogues significant growing regions where vineyards are planted.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, GCL (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and former Soviet politician.

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Moldavia

Moldavia (Moldova, or Țara Moldovei (in Romanian Latin alphabet), Цара Мѡлдовєй (in old Romanian Cyrillic alphabet) is a historical region and former principality in Central and Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River. An initially independent and later autonomous state, it existed from the 14th century to 1859, when it united with Wallachia (Țara Românească) as the basis of the modern Romanian state; at various times, Moldavia included the regions of Bessarabia (with the Budjak), all of Bukovina and Hertza. The region of Pokuttya was also part of it for a period of time. The western half of Moldavia is now part of Romania, the eastern side belongs to the Republic of Moldova, and the northern and southeastern parts are territories of Ukraine.

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Mtevandidi

Mtevandidi is an indigenous red grape variety from the region of Guria in the country of Georgia, primarily used for producing table wine.

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Mtsvane

Mtsvane or Mtsvane Kakhuri is a grape variety used to make Georgian wines.

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Mujuretuli

Mujuretuli is a red wine grape grown in Georgia.

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Mukuzani

Mukuzani (მუკუზანი) is a dry red Georgian wine made from Saperavi grapes in Mukuzani, Kakheti.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Old World wine

Old World wine refers primarily to wine made in Europe but can also include other regions of the Mediterranean basin with long histories of winemaking such as North Africa and the Near East.

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Prohibition in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

Prohibition in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union existed during 1914–25.

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Racha

Racha (also Račha,, Račʼa) is a highland area in western Georgia, located in the upper Rioni river valley and hemmed in by the Greater Caucasus mountains.

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Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti

Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti (რაჭა-ლეჩხუმი და ქვემო სვანეთი, Raç̇a-Leçxumi da Kvemo Svaneti) is a region (Mkhare) in northwestern Georgia which includes the historical provinces of Racha, Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti (i.e., Lower Svaneti).

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Rkatsiteli

Rkatsiteli (Pronounced "rkah-tsee-tely"; Georgian რქაწითელი; literally "red stem") is a kind of grape used to produce white wine.

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Rtveli

Rtveli (რთველი) is a traditional vintage and rural harvest holiday in Georgia accompanied by feasts, musical events and other celebrations.

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Saint Nino

Saint Nino (წმინდა ნინო, ts'minda nino; Սուրբ Նունե, Surb Nune; Αγία Νίνα, Agía Nína; sometimes St. Nune or St. Ninny) Equal to the Apostles and the Enlightener of Georgia (c. 296 – c. 338 or 340) was a woman who preached Christianity in Georgia, that resulted from the Christianization of Iberia.

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Saperavi

Saperavi (საფერავი; literally "paint, dye, give color") is an acidic, teinturier-type grape variety native to Georgia (country), where it is used to make many of the region's most well-known wines.

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Signagi Municipality

Sighnaghi (სიღნაღის მუნიციპალიტეტი) is a municipality of Georgia, in the region of Kakheti.

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Skin-contact wine

Skin-contact wine, amber wine, is a type of wine made from white wine grapes where the grape skins are not removed, and stay in contact with the juice for days or even months.

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South Ossetia

South Ossetia or Tskhinvali Region, is a disputed territory in the South Caucasus, in the northern part of the internationally recognised Georgian territory.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Telavi

Telavi (თელავი) is the main city and administrative center of Georgia's eastern province of Kakheti.

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Tetritsqaro Municipality

Tetritskaro (თეთრიწყაროს მუნიციპალიტეტი, Tetrićqaros Municiṕaliťeťi) is a district of Georgia, in the region of Kvemo Kartli.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Transcaucasia

Transcaucasia (Закавказье), or the South Caucasus, is a geographical region in the vicinity of the southern Caucasus Mountains on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

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Tsinandali wine

Tsinandali white wine comes from Georgia.

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Tsolikouri

Tsolikouri (ცოლიკოური) is a light yellow-skinned white grape variety grown mainly in western Imereti district of Georgia.

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Tvishi (wine)

Tvishi (ტვიში) is an appellation for wines produced in a 15-square-kilometer zone around Tvishi village in northwestern Georgia.

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Ukraine

Ukraine (Ukrayina), sometimes called the Ukraine, is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast; Belarus to the northwest; Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists

UNESCO established its Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage with the aim of ensuring better protection of important intangible cultural heritages worldwide and the awareness of their significance.

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Usakhelauri

Usakhelauri is a naturally semi-sweet Georgian wine.

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Vinologue

Vinologue is a publisher of an enotourism guidebook series of the same name.

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Viticulture

Viticulture (from the Latin word for vine) is the science, production, and study of grapes.

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Vitis

Vitis (grapevines) is a genus of 79 accepted species of vining plants in the flowering plant family Vitaceae.

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Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from grapes fermented without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, water, or other nutrients.

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World

The world is the planet Earth and all life upon it, including human civilization.

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Yeast in winemaking

The role of yeast in winemaking is the most important element that distinguishes wine from grape juice.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_wine

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