1399
Khimshia Abazasdze
The name begins. A Georgian noble fights the invaders of Timur and receives lands from the Crown. The suffix -shvili, child of, will carry forward for 625 years.
Our Story
A name the land has carried for 625 years. A cellar our family has kept for 35.
From the Khimshia of 1399 to the qvevri sealed yesterday.
Oil on canvas · the Khimshiashvili patriarch in chokha with silver cartridge belt
A Line That Never Broke
1755–1815
Selim Bey
The Adjaran branch of the family becomes derebeys, lords of the valleys under Ottoman rule. Selim Bey nearly unifies all Ottoman Georgia before his capture and beheading at Khikhani Castle on 3 June 1815. The name stays in the land.
1878
Sherip Bey's Return
Adjara rejoins Georgia. Sherip Khimshiashvili defects to the Russian side in 1877–78, converts to Orthodox Christianity in 1883, and leads the delegation to Tiflis marking the region's reintegration. The dynasty's final public chapter. The family remained.
1991
The Cellar Begins
Into the uncertainty of Georgia's first years of independence, our family plants its first commercial vines in Buknari, Kobuleti district, coastal Adjara. Not because it was a good moment. Because it was the right moment to return to the land.
2012
The Mountain Vineyard
We plant our second vineyard in Nigazeuli, 850 metres above the sea. Nigazeuli was the ancestral stronghold of the Khimshiashvili beys. We were growing wine on our own ground.
2016
The Church's Recognition
The Eparchy of Batumi and Lazeti awards us Best Family Owned Vineyards. In 1883 Sherip Bey was baptised into the Georgian Orthodox Church; one hundred and thirty-three years later, the Church of the same region recognises this cellar. In Georgia, wine is sacred. In Adjara, after three centuries of Ottoman rule, the Church's recognition is a complete sentence.
2017
Twenty-five Qvevri
We build the cellar. Twenty-five clay vessels buried in the earth. Ten tonnes of wine each year. No shortcuts. No scale. A deliberate constraint.
Today
What Continues
Tsolikouri, Saperavi, Aladasturi, Chkhaveri, Rkatsiteli, Tavkveri, Chacha. Six grapes, one spirit, one family. The work has not changed because the land has not changed.
What Holds
Unbroken heritage
625 years of our name in this land. 35 years of this cellar. The tradition is not staged. It is continued.
Quality-first practice
Ten tonnes a year is not marketing scarcity. It is the volume at which every batch can be personally watched from harvest to sealing.
Authentic Georgian hospitality
A supra (the Georgian ritual feast) is not a performance. It is a ritual. When you visit, you are not a customer. You are a guest at the family table.
The Fortress · Adjara
Where a bey once ruled the valley, a family now plants the vine.
The wine that comes from the land does not belong to anyone. We are only its keepers for a time.
— The Khimshiashvili family