The Georgian Wine Society

Picking Mtsvane in the Kondoli Vineyards

ADOPT YOUR OWN GEORGIAN VINES

Have you ever wanted your own vineyard?

We are delighted to announce the arrival of The Georgian Wine Society’s vineyard adoption program. Now for the first time Georgian Wine enthusiasts can adopt their own vines in some of Georgia’s most celebrated vineyards.

Kondoli Vineyards

Given the history and tradition of winemaking in Georgia, we didn’t want to use any old vineyards for this project, so we have teamed up with the Telavi Wine Cellar, one of Georgia’s top wine producers, to secure an allocation of vines in the world-famous, 300-year-old Kondoli vineyards in Kakheti. Located in the controlled appellation of Tsinandali, between the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains and the banks of the Alazani River, the Kondoli vineyards produce some of Georgia’s very best wines, and conditions are perfectly suited for the growth of Georgia’s classic indigenous grape varieties.

Classic Georgian Grape Varieties

We have chosen two of Georgia’s classic indigenous grape varieties for our adoption program – the fresh white grape Mtsvane, and the national red grape of Georgia, Saperavi. Kondoli’s mtsvane vines are found along the right bank of the Alazani River on a North facing slope, where cool evening breezes from the Caucasus Mountains flow through the river canyon, ensuring cooler grower conditions and consequently fresher, crisper aromas from the Mstvane grapes. The Saperavi vines are planted further from the river bank, where warmer conditions help the maturation of the grapes and encourage the preponderance of black fruit aromas for which Saperavi is renowned.

The Complete Package

Send us your email and we will update you every three months on how your grapes and wines are developing:

Ø      What is the calendar of the vineyard and the winery throughout the year?

Ø      When are the vines starting to develop, and how does the weather impact the development of the grapes and the wine?

Ø      How do the winemakers decide when the harvest will take place?

Ø      What happens to your grapes after they have been sent to the winery?

And once your wine has been fermented, refined and matured we will send it straight to your door.

Adopters will adopt vines for the 2011 Vintage, which will allow them to follow the development of their grapes and wine for a full year, before the wine is delivered to them in the early Summer of 2012. The price per vine per year is £29.99, or you can adopt 3 vines for £54.99. There is no limit on the number of vines you can adopt, and we will send you one bottle of wine from the award-winning vineyard for each adopted vine. You will also receive an adoption pack containing an introduction to Georgian wines and the vineyard and wine of your choice, along with a certificate giving the number(s) of your vine(s) in the vineyard.

A perfect and unique present for anyone interested in wine, or the ideal way to learn exactly how the wine you drink is created, these vines are strictly limited in number, so we recommend you contact us as soon as possible if you wish to reserve one.

Simply email us at orders@georgianwinesociety.co.uk, letting us know the type of vine you would like to adopt and how many – we will then send you an invoice for the vines, and make sure we have all the details we need to set up your adoption. Please note that all adopters must be over 18 years old.

As with everything else we do, 10% of the profits from this program go to EveryChild’s childcare programs in Georgia.