Georgia is widely considered the birthplace of wine. Artifacts unearthed across the country push the practice of winemaking back some eight thousand years, and the tradition has never been interrupted since — from Kakheti in the east through Kartli, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi, and on to Abkhazia in the west.
St. Nino is said to have arrived carrying a cross bound with her own hair, its arms bent downward by the weight of the vine it was made from. Of the roughly 450 grape varieties once catalogued here a great many were lost during the Soviet period; recovering them is the quiet work of a generation of small producers.
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Georgia: the homeland of wine
Georgia is widely considered the birthplace of wine. Artifacts unearthed across the country push the practice of winemaking back some eight thousand years, and the tradition has never been interrupted since — from Kakheti in the east through Kartli, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi, and on to Abkhazia in the west.
St. Nino is said to have arrived carrying a cross bound with her own hair, its arms bent downward by the weight of the vine it was made from. Of the roughly 450 grape varieties once catalogued here a great many were lost during the Soviet period; recovering them is the quiet work of a generation of small producers.
