#wine

Rtveli: Joining the Georgian Grape Harvest

For a few weeks in autumn the wine country stops being a tasting room and becomes work, and visitors who turn up at the right moment get handed a bucket.

Romantic Georgia: A Town Called the City of Love and a Bath at Midnight

A hilltop town above a valley of vines, sulfur baths in a private room, a balcony over an old town and a cellar where somebody pours you their own wine.

Shopping in Tbilisi: A Flea Market Under a Bridge and Wine Worth Carrying Home

Soviet cameras and cavalry medals at the Dry Bridge, churchkhela by the metre, amber wine at a third of export prices, and a serious young design scene.