Red · Qvevri · 12% ABV
Aladasturi
A grape that almost disappeared. Saved at the table.
ABV
12%
Method
Qvevri
Style
Red
Tasting note
A dry red from Aladasturi, a near-extinct western Georgian grape whose home was Guria and central Imereti before phylloxera and mildew nearly finished it. Light in body, soft in tannin, with black cherry, tobacco leaf, and the earth after rain. Fermented on its own skins in qvevri buried in the cellar floor. No chemical additives. A small amount of natural sediment may appear.
Origin
Fewer than fifty hectares of Aladasturi are left on this earth, and fewer than fifteen commercial producers still make it. A Georgian nursery programme was built to keep the variety from dying. We are among that handful of family cellars. A wine preserved by being drunk.
Food pairing
Cured meats from the mountain. Mushroom kharcho. Slow-roasted eggplant with walnut. Aged hard cheese, broken by hand.
Made and bottled in the Khimshiashvili family cellar.
