The best wines of Akhasheni

Discover the best wines of Akhasheni of Kakheti as well as the best winemakers of Akhasheni and estates of Akhasheni to visit. Explore the popular grape varieties of Akhasheni and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Top wines of Akhasheni by region

Looking for a good wine of Akhasheni of Kakheti among the top wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent wines of Akhasheni. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be appropriate with these exceptional wines. Learn more about the region and the wines of Akhasheni with technical and enological descriptions.

Great red wines of Akhasheni

See the top 100 best red wines of Akhasheni

Want to buy a red wine of Akhasheni cheap or sell a red wine of Akhasheni at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.

Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Akhasheni

Red wines from the region of Akhasheni go well with generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in red wine of Akhasheni

  • 2019With an average score of 4.80/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.28/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.17/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.16/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.11/5

The most used grape varieties in red wine of Akhasheni

  • Saperavi

The best wineries and winemakers for red wine of Akhasheni

A wine route planned in the region of Akhasheni? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best red wine of Akhasheni.

Discovering the wine region of Akhasheni

The wine region of Akhasheni is located in the region of Kakheti of Georgia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Akhasheni Wine Resort or the Domaine Old Gruzia produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Akhasheni are Saperavi, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. We currently count 30 estates and châteaux in the of Akhasheni, producing 35 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture.

The wines of Akhasheni go well with generally quite well with dishes .

Great white wines of Akhasheni

See the top 100 best white wines of Akhasheni

Want to buy a white wine of Akhasheni cheap or sell a white wine of Akhasheni at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.

Food and wine pairing with a white wine of Akhasheni

White wines from the region of Akhasheni go well with generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best wineries and winemakers for white wine of Akhasheni

A wine route planned in the region of Akhasheni? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best white wine of Akhasheni.

Discover the grape variety: Saperavi

Originally from Georgia - Kakhetie region - where it has been cultivated for a long time. This variety is found in many countries such as Russia, Bulgaria, the Caucasus and Crimean republics, etc. Care should be taken not to confuse it with others, which are admittedly quite similar, but which bear the name Saperavi, generally followed by another name. In France, the "real Saperavi" is practically unknown, it is however registered since November 2012 in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties list A1.

News from the vineyard of Akhasheni

EU grants member states the right to use resistant hybrid varieties in appellation wines

Following a recent modification of EU rules, member states are now allowed to employ resistant varieties in the production of wines with protected denominations of origin (PDO). The decision, published last week in the Official Journal of the European Union, is part of a wider revision of previous regulations that established common quality schemes, organisation of the market, definitions, descriptions, presentations, and labelling of European agricultural products and foodstuffs. Before the ann ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

Bollinger Group purchases Sancerre estate Hubert Brochard

The Champagne house expanded into the region when it acquired Maison Langlois-Chateau in Saumur back in 1973. It then bolstered its presence in Sancerre with the acquisition of Château de Thauvenay in 2016. Now it has tied up a deal to bring the family-run Hubert Brochard estate into the fold. ‘The acquisition of Hubert Brochard estate represents a unique opportunity to consolidate our footprint in this fantastic region and to continue to promote, in France and internationally, its savoir-faire ...