Find and Book Wineries to Visit in Kakheti

To travel to Kakheti and visit wineries, the logical arrival point in Georgia is Tbilisi International Airport, which is the biggest airport in the country.<br>Tbilisi International Airport is located on the easter getaway of Tbilisi that leads the road to the Kakheti wine region.

The easiest way to visit wineries in Kakheti is to travel by car. You can easily rent a car in Tbilisi or at the airport and it takes 2 hours to drive to Telavi, where you will be able to visit a lot of Kakhetian wineries.

There are public and private minibusses that connect most of the cities of Kakheti to Tbilisi.<br>Where you can find these minibusses? you should reach Ortachala bus station where you will be able to take a ride to Telavi. Once you arrive in Telavi, it is easy to explore around and experience wine tastings and tours in Kakheti.

The best season to visit wineries in Kakheti is between April and October.
If you are looking for more relaxed visits to the wineries in Kakheti, you should travel during springtime. During this period you will find fewer tourist crowds around Kakheti. If the heat is a problem for you, try to avoid visiting wineries in July, or August.
For the harvest experiences, you should visit wineries during September and October months.

Most of the wineries in Kakheti are small and medium-sized, where you will be able to taste artisan wines crafted with special care following 8000 years old winemaking practices. Here you will find historical wineries with decades of history as well as newly born family own wineries run by the younger generation.

The most commonly planted grape varieties in Kakheti are Saperavi and Rkatsiteli. However, in recent years a lot of wineries in Kakheti have dedicated themselves to giving new life to forgotten grapes that have disappeared in the region during the rule of the Soviet Union in Georgia.
Together with Rkatsiteli and Saperavi, you will also find Kakhuri Mtsvane, Khikhvi, Kisi, Budeshuri, Mtsvivana, and a lot of different indigenous grape varieties on a smaller scale.
Wineries in Kakheti produce high-quality wines that are made from Kakhetian grape varieties using both European and traditional winemaking technology. Kakhetian winemaking technique is one of the ancient and the most unique winemaking methods in the world and it involves the use of Kvevri, an underground clay vessel used for fermentation and aging wines.

Kartuli (Georgian) is the official language of the country and you will definitely win the heart of any Georgian if you tell them few words in their language.
It would be an impossible task to read in Georgian but we tried to put some words  written in lathin that could be useful for your visit to the wineries in Kakheti:

English	Georgian
Wine	Ghvino
Winery	Marani
Wine tasting	Ghvinis dagemovneba
Wine route	Ghvinis gza
Cheers!	Gaumarjos!

Wineries in Kakheti offer a diversity of wine tourism experiences that includes wine tastings, winery, and vineyard guided tours, different masterclasses as well as food and wine pairings.
Besides wine tastings and winery tours, some of the wineries in Kakheti also offer restaurants and accommodation and gives you the possibility to prolong your stay and enjoy rural life in the region.
Have a look at our list of wine tastings and tours in Kakheti.