New findings from a research project conducted by an international team of scientists have confirmed that the beginnings of viticulture and winemaking can be traced to around 6000 B.C., in Georgia. Image courtesy of: Early Neolithic Wine of Georgia in the South Caucasus Previous evidence suggested that the earliest signs of winemaking dated to around 5400 –…
Reading the report on Sarah Abbott’s recent trip to Georgia with a team of top UK buyers prompted some memories of my own from three decades ago. I still don’t know how, in 1987, I came to be included in a small group of wine professionals invited to visit the then Soviet Union. There were,…
Photograph of Georgian vineyards above copyright Miles Willis photography: www.mileswillis.co.uk/ The allure of Georgia has been strong this month, with leading wine trade journals writing about the joys of tasting, and the challenges of making, these heartfelt wines. Trade Journals can seem a little dry to normal humans, but they are hugely important to us…
British wine trade and press are hosted in Georgia The #GeorgianWineUK team took a group of British wine buyers and journalists to Georgia last week. On the trip, hosted by the National Wine Agency of Georgia, were consultants and restaurateurs Martin Lam and Kate Hawkings, journalists Emma Diggory and David Williams, photographer Miles Willis, and Sarah Abbott MW and…
On October 5th the award-winning movie Prime Meridian will be screened at the London headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Pleas click here to watch the trailer, while details of the screening appear below… Wine aficionados will want to join HE Mrs Tamar Beruchashvili, Ambassador of Georgia to the United Kingdom, and…
We are delighted to offer a little taster of the brilliant Cradle of Wine exhibition that is currently running at the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux.
Cité du Vin – a celebration of wine in France The Cité du Vin, which opened in the heart of Bordeaux earlier this year, is much more than a museum; it’s an architectural masterpiece in which to experience and taste a wide range of wines from around the world and to learn about the history,…
Fine minds and fine wines…. What makes a wine ‘fine’? Along with 60 or so wine enthusiasts, professionals and consumers I was lucky to be invited by Nicole Sierra-Rolet co-founder of the le Chêne Bleu estate in the southern Rhône to try to answer this question at a weekend think tank snappily entitled Fine Minds 4 Fine…
UK importers including Doug Wregg of Les Caves and Lance Foyster MW of Clark Foyster wines explain why they are working with Georgian Wine. Sommeliers Donald Edwards and Lachlan George share their picks of the tasting, and award-winning wine and drink writer Henry Jeffreys gives a typically broad and entertaining summary of Georgia’s appeal. And many…
Scores of UK wine writers, importers and sommeliers attended the Wines of Georgia tasting in London last week. Wines were grouped by style, and included dry whites, rosé, qvevri orange wines, qvevri red wines, classic dry reds, sweet wines and Georgian whisky. Françoise Mathis, of Boutinot, praised the character and quality of the dry white wines,…