The Winery Metekhi of Kakheti

Winery Metekhi - Алазанская Долина Белое (Alazani Valley White)
The winery offers 13 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 22 of the estates of Kakheti.
It is located in Kakheti

The Winery Metekhi is one of the world's great estates. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Kakheti to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Metekhi wines

Looking for the best Winery Metekhi wines in Kakheti among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Metekhi wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Metekhi wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Metekhi

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Metekhi

How Winery Metekhi wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Metekhi

  • 2013With an average score of 3.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Metekhi.

  • Rkatsiteli
  • Mtsvane Kakhuri

Discovering the wine region of Kakheti

Kakheti is the most important wine region in Georgia in quantitative, qualitative and even historic terms. Almost three-quarters of the country's wine Grapes are grown here, on land that has been used for viticulture for thousands of years. Kakheti is home to some of the oldest human habitations in the entire Caucasus region, and archaeological findings have suggested that wine has been produced here for several thousand years. The region's strong relationship with wine and Vine was captured in Georgia's famous hymn 'Thou Art a Vineyard', written in the 12th Century by King Demetrius I.

A historical Georgian province, Kakheti is not an official administrative province in the modern day. Viniculturally speaking, the area is unofficially divided into several sub-regions, and even a number of microregions. This creates a huge variety of mesoClimates for viticulture with an equally large variety of grape varieties found throughout. The most significant of these Center around the villages of Tsinandali, Telavi, Gurajaani, Kvareli, Sagarejo and Sighnahi, which dot the banks of the Alazani River as it flows from the Caucasus Mountains to the Mingecevir reservoir in western Azerbaijan.

Kakheti has a transient continental climate with mild to subtropical temperatures as well as arid conditionds to Ample rainfall for viticulture. Predominately, viticultural areas have an arid climate with rainfall conserved to the winter months. Interestingly, in the particularly humid areas of Shida Kakheti, irrigation is required due to the high level of evapotranspiration. The nutrient-poor soils here are something of a trademark for viticulture as their discovery saw the early Georgian vignerons (as far back as 6000 BC) stumble across near-perfect Terroir millennia before the concept of terroir was formalized and given a name.

The top red wines of Winery Metekhi

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Metekhi

How Winery Metekhi wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Metekhi

  • 2017With an average score of 4.17/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.04/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.02/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.55/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Metekhi.

  • Saperavi
  • Aleksandrouli
  • Mujuretuli

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Metekhi

Planning a wine route in the of Kakheti? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Metekhi.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet-Cortis

Interspecific cross between Cabernet Sauvignon and Solaris (Merzling x Geisenheim 6493 (Zarya Severa x Muscat Ottonel)) made in 1982 by Norbert Becker of the Freiburg Research Institute in Germany. It has the particularity of having only one gene for resistance to mildew and powdery mildew. It can be found in the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, etc., but is still little known in France. Note that Cabernet-Carol has the same parents.

News about Winery Metekhi and wines from the region

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Hitting the right note

Last year, there was much mirth on wine Twitter about a particularly excruciating tasting note. You’re right. The wine trade needs to get out more. But still… this one was a beauty. It began well enough – really quite beautiful, in fact. But before long the imaginative descriptions were getting more ornate and strained. It moved from poetic to meaningless before finishing with a reference to Burnt Norton – the first of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets – that put it firmly in Private Eye magazine’s ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Rich

Said of a complex and concentrated wine, whose power suggests a good capacity for ageing.