S.S. Mandani

9.1

Doing a tasting at our wine club, The Nightshift, with the theme “Ancient Vines.” Starting off here to understand Georgian wines better. Hopefully a good beginning…

(Draft of the novel in the background)

Aromas of honeysuckle, peaches, apricot, dried fruits, unfiltered honey.

I don’t know what the ratings are smoking. Maybe people are biased towards Eurocentric/American winemaking traditions we’re used to seeing in the marketplace.

With a winemaking tradition 8,000 years old that claims to be the birthplace of wine, this is as old world as you’re going to get.

Honeyed yams and sweet potato, dry like the tartness of an unripe peach, tea like qualities.

I think this is lovely (especially for a tasting). It’s going to stack up nicely with some fun cheeses. Excited. — 9 days ago

Matté

Manager The Wine Cellars

9.3

This is the Tibaani bottling.
On the nose there’s a wonderfully complex mix of treacle tart, apricot pastry, sticky toffee pudding, Manuka honey, warm terracotta pot, flapjack, gingerbread, yellow raisins and toasted almonds.
The palate shows spicy apricot, turmeric and gingerbread character, the tannins are sapid, firm but chalky and quite fine, certainly a wine that works best with food.
(Worked all with a chicken curry). — 3 years ago

Elizabeth Gardner

9.0

Lots of tannins but still really easy to drink too fast — 4 years ago

Jesse Bookout

9.1

Love it! Refreshing with a little funk. You can nearly taste the clay pots. — a month ago

Vitaly Domnenko

8.9

Bm+. Th. Am. Fm-. — 6 months ago

Jay Kline

8.9

By the glass with lunch, no formal notes. First time ever trying Khikhvi and I can imagine this is how wine was made 1000 years ago. Obviously extended skin contact with a copper salmon color. Funky fresh nose and complex on the palate with all sorts of interesting fruit and non-fruit things going on. Acid and tannin providing good structure. Certainly a change of pace and quite enjoyable actually. — 3 years ago

Mary Matthews

9.0

Tastes of Cherries. Very nice tasting. Can drink with any type of red meat — a month ago

Shangliao Sun

9.1

Smells of blackberries, tea and cedar. On the palate it is concentrated with fine tannins and a long finish. — 4 months ago

Elizabeth Gardner

9.0

More interesting than the average kindz. — 4 years ago

Michael Everett

9.3

Look at me — 4 years ago