Chkheidze Family Cellar

in Kakheti

  • Tasting
  • Meals
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The family

Three sisters run this marani on the eastern edge of Telavi: Tamar keeps the vineyard, Ketevan makes the wine, and Salome, who spent six years working in restaurants in Warsaw, cooks and talks to guests. Their father planted the Kisi in 1987 and left the house to all three of them, which he apparently thought was funny.

The wine is made in qvevri and in one very old oak vat that Ketevan refuses to retire. Production is about two thousand bottles, and roughly half of it goes to people who turned up at the gate.

What they make

  • Kisi

    Amber Kisi

    qvevri, 5 months on the skins

  • Rkatsiteli-Mtsvane

    Amber Rkatsiteli, Kakhuri Mtsvane

    qvevri, wild ferment, 6 months on the skins

Visiting

Tasting
Tasting 25 GEL
Meals
lunch by arrangement, 45 GEL per person
When to come
May–October
Languages spoken
Georgian, Polish, English

Getting there

41.9012, 45.4988

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