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Gogoladze of the Ateni Gorge

in Kartli

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  • Rooms
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The family

The Ateni gorge has been making wine since the sixth century and the Gogoladze family have been in this particular village for at least six generations, which by local standards is unremarkable.

What is unusual is the wine. Chinuri from these slopes keeps a very high natural acidity, and Irakli Gogoladze uses it to make a sparkling wine by a second fermentation in bottle — almost nobody else in Georgia does this. He also makes a still Chinuri in qvevri for people who came expecting one.

The gorge is forty minutes from Gori and the road is good. Irakli speaks careful, deliberate English and is a patient explainer.

What they make

  • Atenuri Sparkling

    White Chinuri, Goruli Mtsvane

    second fermentation in bottle, 18 months on the lees

    Atenuri

  • Chinuri Qvevri

    Amber Chinuri

    qvevri, 3 months on the skins

  • Tavkveri

    Red Tavkveri

    qvevri, 2 months on the skins

Visiting

Tasting
Tasting 45 GEL
Rooms
5 rooms · 140 GEL per night
Meals
supra on request, 55 GEL per person
When to come
April–November, rtveli in October
Languages spoken
Georgian, English, Russian
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Getting there

41.8712, 44.1099

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