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Author Archives: Celia Bryan Brown

Recently rediscovered drink of kings: Shavkapito

News, Red GrapesBy Celia Bryan BrownApril 19, 2020

On the scale of obscure indigenous Georgian grape varieties, Shavkapito takes the biscuit. Though once the favoured grape of kings, Shavkapito was only recently rediscovered. Indeed, it’s so rare that…

Tavkveri: the shark of wines

News, Red GrapesBy Celia Bryan BrownApril 16, 2020

What do sharks and wine have in common? Not much! Though this grape is nicknamed after one the ocean’s most elusive predators: Hammerheads. These red grapes are evocatively nicknamed for…

Rkatsiteli: *almost* a household name

Georgian Wine, News, White GrapesBy Celia Bryan BrownApril 3, 2020

If you’re at all interested in Georgian wine, then you’ll almost certainly have heard of Rkatsiteli. A white grape used to produce both traditional Georgian-style and European-style wines, it is…

Goruli Mtsvane – a white grape to watch

Georgian Wine, News, White GrapesBy Celia Bryan BrownMarch 27, 2020

Goruli Mtsvane (pronounced Go-roo-lee Mah-ts-vah-nay) may not be as well known as its white counterparts Rkatsiteli or Kisi, but its well worth seeking out. Goruli Mtsvane originates from Kartli, one…

Drink Saperavi this Christmas

News, Red Grapes, SaperaviBy Celia Bryan BrownDecember 22, 2019

Is there a red grape more suited to Christmas feasting than Saperavi? This versatile grape can be used to make dry, semi-sweet, full-on sweet, and fortified wines. If you wanted, you…

A British Qvevri Project: Plumpton students visit Georgia

Georgian wine producers, News, ProducersBy Celia Bryan BrownDecember 16, 2019

A little bit of Georgia in Sussex (part 2), by Chris Foss   The British Georgian Chamber of Commerce and the Georgian National Wine Agency invited a group of Plumpton…

Interview: Steve Daniel, Head of Buying for Hallgarten

NewsBy Celia Bryan BrownDecember 10, 2019

Hallgarten & Novum Wines is one of the UK’s leading specialist wine merchants, named European Merchant of the Year in 2019 and 2018, and New World Merchant of the Year 2017…

A British Qvevri Project: qvevri winemaking at Plumpton

NewsBy Celia Bryan BrownNovember 27, 2019

In a quiet corner of Sussex, two cultures have collided. The renowned Plumpton College is playing host to a British first – a cellar or marani of UK-made qvevri wines. Qvevri…

Rkatsiteli: Georgia’s workhorse grape

News, White GrapesBy Celia Bryan BrownNovember 5, 2019

Saperavi may be grabbing all the headlines as Georgian wine makes inroads to the UK market. But there’s a white grape we think you need to know about. Rkatsiteli (kat-se-telly)…

Is that a wolf in the vines?

NewsBy Celia Bryan BrownOctober 28, 2019

Caucasian Shepherd dogs guarding Georgia’s wineries make a trip to wine country unlike any other. At the peak of the Gombori mountain pass, travelers find a little hut shrouded in…

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