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Pheasant’s Tears Chitistvala 2015

by DR MATTHEW HORKEY -
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Reading Time: Welcome to As Drunk By Exotic Wine Travel, a new weekly column where we feature wines that are worth noting. The wines featured in this series may be written by either one or the both of us. The featured wines can be from obscure or more well-known wine regions. Sit

The Unstoppable Progress in the Georgian Wine Scene

by EXOTIC WINE TRAVEL -
Chateau Mukhrani UNWTO International Conference on Global Wine Tourism

Reading Time: Georgian wine is back on our minds. It took 18 months of non-stop travel through known and lesser-known wine regions to produce our first wine book. The same time that we were planning to release Uncorking the Caucasus, the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) was hosting their inaugural

Saperavi: Georgia’s Flagship Red Wine Grape

by CHARINE TAN -
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Reading Time: Exploring Georgia through the Vines While several countries  may have evidence for being the birthplace of grape wine, Georgia is the most outspoken about it. Some historians and linguists believe that "gvino/ღვინო", the Georgian word for wine, is the precursor of vino, vin, wein, and wine. Scientists have found residue

Ancient Wine Grape Varieties from Armenia, Georgia, and Turkey

by EXOTIC WINE TRAVEL -

Reading Time: Part of this article was originally published on Wine Folly. This article has been repurposed with their permission. This version of the article includes wine recommendations. The writing is done by Exotic Wine Travel and all images are produced by Wine Folly.  Somewhere in what is today's Transcaucasia, mankind planted

Exploring the Different Expressions of Georgian Wine

by EXOTIC WINE TRAVEL -
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Reading Time: In November, as part of our Uncorking the Caucasus book launch and promotion, we had a signing session along with a wine tasting class at 8000 Vintages in Tbilisi, Georgia. 8000 Vintages is located just about a 10-minute ride from the popular tourist zone in the Old Town. The name

An Introduction to Georgian Qvevri Wine in Zagreb

by EXOTIC WINE TRAVEL -
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Reading Time: For a listing of articles and videos on Georgian wine and other wines from the Caucasus region, check out our page Uncorking the Caucasus. To purchase the Kindle or paperback copy of the book Uncorking the Caucasus: Wines from Turkey, Armenia, and Georgia, please head to this Amazon product page. Georgia, the

Trendsetter: Sarah Abbott, Master of Wine

by CHARINE TAN -
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Reading Time: Sarah Abbott is a Master of Wine who comes from a food-loving family. After working in the IT software industry for several years, she decided to change her career trajectory and immerse in wine in 1996. Her first foray into wine was as a sales and marketing representative