The flavor of cigar box in wine of Kartli
Discover the of Kartli wines revealing the of cigar box flavor during the olphactive analysis (nose) and during the gustative analysis (mouth).
The wine region of Kartli of Georgia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Dora or the Domaine Doremi produce mainly wines white, red and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Kartli are Chinuri, Saperavi and Goruli mtsvane, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Kartli often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of earth, vegetal or tree fruit.
We currently count 17 estates and châteaux in the of Kartli, producing 33 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Kartli go well with generally quite well with dishes .
Tina Gellie, Content Manager and Regional Editor (Australia, South Africa, New Zealand & Canada) It was a big year of Decanter travel for me, heading to Napa and New York in June, South Africa in October and most recently a week each in Margaret River and South Australia. These trips have formed the basis of my festive selections. Christmas lunch on North Stradbroke Island (reunited with my family after four years, no thanks to Covid) always starts with oysters, followed by a bucket of prawn ...
No yeast; no wine. Yeast is the only ‘wine maker’ in that sense. Imagine a world in which we had to content ourselves with tasting and drinking grape juice: sweet, with no ability to alter our mood, and largely undifferentiated in sensual terms. Our interest would evaporate. Mysteriously, only yeast can unlock personality and even origin in must. Unlock? Perhaps even that word is misconceived. Yeast is, with grape juice, the progenitor of wine. It is not neutral, abstract, a twinkly wand that tr ...
‘When I started producing wine, the wineries were all in a very bad condition,’ said Askaneli Brothers president Gocha Chkhaidze, recalling the poor state of the Georgian wine industry shortly after the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. ‘There was inadequate sanitation, a lack of know-how and old-fashioned bottling lines. People were unable to make wine sustainably, vineyards were not sufficiently cared for, agronomists were unskilled and used to harvest the maximu ...