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Wine & cuisine Updated 18 October 2026

Racha and Khvanchkara: Georgia's Other Wine Region

Georgia's second wine appellation makes a naturally semi-sweet red in the mountains north of Kutaisi, and almost no visitor goes. What to know first.

Trays of old watches, badges and trinkets laid out at a flea market in Tbilisi, Georgia

Tbilisi Updated 15 October 2026

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.

Long table covered with Georgian dishes and wine glasses at a feast

Wine & cuisine Updated 30 September 2026

The Supra: How a Georgian Feast Actually Works

A long table, a toastmaster who runs the evening, and a sequence of toasts that is not small talk. What happens at a Georgian supra and how to take part.

Hill town of Sighnaghi with tiled roofs above the Alazani valley in Georgia

Wine & cuisine Updated 6 September 2026

Sighnaghi: The Wine Country Town on a Ridge

A restored hill town above the Alazani valley with a defensive wall you can walk, the Caucasus on the horizon, and wineries in every direction below it.

A picker carrying a full crate of dark grapes out of a vineyard in autumn colour

Wine & cuisine Updated 17 August 2026

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.

Red tiled roofs of the hill town of Sighnaghi above the valley in Kakheti, Georgia

Trip planning Updated 22 June 2026

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.