Gabunia Ojaleshi

in Samegrelo

  • Tasting
  • Meals
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The family

Ojaleshi grows up trees in Samegrelo, or used to — the name means "growing on a tree" — and the Gabunia family still keep a dozen old vines that way in the garden, alongside a proper trellised hectare planted in 2009.

The grape is harvested very late, occasionally into December, and makes a dark red with more structure than the region’s rainfall would lead you to expect. Beka Gabunia is the third generation here and the first to bottle anything.

What they make

  • Ojaleshi

    Red Ojaleshi

    qvevri, 4 months on the skins

Visiting

Tasting
Tasting 30 GEL
Meals
Megrelian lunch on request, 40 GEL per person
When to come
May–December
Languages spoken
Georgian, Russian
Also sells
sulguni cheese, ajika

Getting there

42.4222, 42.3654

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