Culture
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A day trip into semi-desert badlands to a sixth-century cave monastery on the Azerbaijani border.
Full day · 9 hours2–14 travellers
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Wine
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The Kakheti Wine Route
Sighnaghi & the Alazani Valley
- Duration
- 2 days · 1 night
- Group size
- 2–10 travellers
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Region
- Sighnaghi & the Alazani Valley
About this journey
Georgia has been making wine for around eight thousand years, and Kakheti is where it still happens at scale. This journey moves between small family marani and one serious monastic estate, with enough time at each to actually talk to the people pouring.
You will taste from the qvevri — whole grapes fermented under the earth in beeswax-lined clay — and understand why amber wine tastes nothing like the white wine you know.
The second evening is a full supra in a private house in Sighnaghi, with a tamada running the toasts. It is the most Georgian thing that will happen to you.
Highlights
- Taste directly from qvevri in a working family cellar
- Alaverdi Cathedral and its monastic winery
- A private supra with a traditional tamada
- Sunset over the Alazani valley from the Sighnaghi walls
- Tsinandali Estate and its nineteenth-century cellar
Departures
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Itinerary
Drive east across the Gombori pass into the Alazani valley. Visit Alaverdi Cathedral and its monastic cellar, then a family marani for a qvevri tasting and lunch under the vines. Continue to Sighnaghi for sunset on the ramparts.
- Meals included
- Lunch, Dinner
- Overnight
- Boutique guesthouse, Sighnaghi
What's included
- Private transfers from and to Tbilisi
- One night in a boutique guesthouse in Sighnaghi
- All tastings and cellar visits
- Traditional supra dinner with wine
- English-speaking wine guide
Not included
- International flights
- Travel insurance
- Bottles purchased at wineries
- Gratuities
Meeting point
Your Tbilisi hotel, 09:00 on day one.
Meet at 08:00
Important information
- Six to eight tastings across two days — pacing is entirely up to you.
- The supra is a shared table; vegetarian menus are available with notice.
- Cellars are cool year-round; bring a layer even in August.
FromGEL 1,304 per person
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