Kakheti tour - wine tastings & lunch

This is a very diverse wine tasting and day tour in Kakheti. You will enjoy traditional wines and tasty local food, visit two deferent wineries and see behind the curtains in order to know how production works, learn the history of making wines in old traditional way and after all you will have enough time to just relax, chat and enjoy beautiful sceneries of Kakheti.

Wine tour in Kakheti includes:

√ Transportation
√ English speaking guide
√ Bodbe Nunnery
√ City of Love Signagi
√ Lunch and several traditional wines by local Family
√ Wine tour and wine tasting in a modern winery  
√ All entrance fees according the itinerary

Program overview

8:30 Pick up at the hotel
9:30 Traditional bakery in Badiauri
11:30 Nunnery in Bodbe
12:30 City of love Sighnaghi
14:00 Lunch/wine tasting with the family
17:00 Guided tour & wine tasting at the winery
18:30 Return journey via Gombori Pass
20:30 Arrival in Tbilisi

Itinerary

Wine tour in Kakheti starts quite early. We will pick you up at around 8:30 and drive to Signagi, it is a great city to start a Wine tour. Its architecture, cobblestone streets, location at top of a hill, with the snow-covered greater Caucasus in background, give the town a romantic look. Signagi has also a marriage chapel, which hosts ceremonies taking place all hours of the day and night. These are the reasons, why this small town is called “city of love”.

But before we go to Sighnaghi, we will visit one of Georgia's most important nunneries at Bodbe, where St Nino, who founded Christianity in Georgia in the 4th century, is buried.

Bodbe is not just a nunnery, it is a beautiful and peaceful place with beautifully manicured gardens and magnificent views of the surrounding area.

We will make a short city tour in Signagi and then drive to local wine maker, who has a small wine cellar and produces only traditional wine fermented in Qvevri (Underground Clay Vessels). Our host will show us his property, explain the method how he makes traditional wines and at the end of our tour, we will enjoy tasty lunch, with vegetables, barbeque and several homemade wines.

After lunch, we continue our journey to Tsinandali. The Chavchavadze princely family resided here for centuries. The tastefully furnished palace was a meeting place for the Georgian intelligentsia in the 19th century and was often visited by Russian and European writers such as Alexander Dumas and Pushkin. A tour of the house is not planned, we will only drive through the village of Tsinandali.

At the end of our wine tour in Kakheti we will visit a modern winery, where wines are produced in both, Georgian and European style. Here we will make a tour through the winery, learn what is deference between several wine fermenting method, what makes Georgian wine so unique and why is it Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

After our tour we will make wine tasting of several wines with a professional sommelier and also try famous Georgian Grappa, called Chacha.

Our day tour in Kakheti is going to an end and we will drive over Gombori Pass back to Tbilisi. - Arrival in Tbilisi at about 8 pm.

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