Georgia and Moldova are definitely two places you have two go if you are scratching your head over where you should go on holiday. The first one is the birthplace of wine, the culture is very oriented toward this holy beverage and they are very proud of the unique and ancestral type of wines they produce (orange wine, qvevri...). Moldova on the other hand is very famous for hosting the two largest wine cellars in the world (milestii mici and Cricova) stretching for more than 150 km and containing more than 2 millions bottles. Both countries have a National holiday to celebrate wine, it just goes to show how serious they are about it :)

I'm glad to say in Melbourne Australia it's surprisingly easy to find Georgian Wine, with our biggest alcohol retailer having about 20+ different options on their online store, and various interdependent bottle-shops around our high Mediterranean population area's generally carrying a variety of Israeli and Georgian wines. The most common style i've found Rkatsiteli in though is as a blending partner to red wine Saperavi/Rkatsiteli's

Excellent presentation. No nonsense, factual, well rounded. Thank you.

Just found your videos and have become hooked. Very good knowledge sharing, thank you!!

Thank you so much for this. I've long enjoyed this grape in dry wines from Georgia and the Konstantin Frank one. Tonight while drinking the Tikves from Macedonia I tripped over your video. You do very good work.

Very educative video, thank you! (Georgia, Kazakhstan and mentioned countries were part of The Soviet Union)

Nerello Mascalese would be super interesting!!! Great videos.

In the Soviet Union, Georgians (and Armenians) were always stereotyped as being Rich, largely due to the vineyards in those areas.

Awesome voice. Compact information

I'm geeking out on this one! So out of my comfort zone, and I love it!! #Hyped

The R is definitely pronounced in Georgia: Reh Kat si telli. The R is soft and the K is hard.

Well i looked online and while Total Wine carries Horton and Dr. Konstantin Frank Rkatsiteli they do not carry it in Kentucky.... bummer

how bout saperavi

Very nice video learned a lot and thought it was extremely interesting. I have a Georgian wine I need to review and this is going to push me to do it sooner than later cheers.

Thanks for this video, was little bit suprised by issue. Try another white varieties as Tsolikauri, Tsiska, Tsinandali but make sure they are: dry and qvevri made. Avoid any georgian semi-sweet wines, most of them are real "simple" and made for russian mostly primitive taste market. Still waiting for your notes about Mencia: real gem of Spain! Cheers!

The Chinese pronunciation is off, the characters for it is 白羽 which means white feathers... (I'd write the pronunciation for you but I cant think of a similar sound in English, as the U has an accented sound to it) Baiyu is an experimental grape in parts of China due to its ability to resist cold. Although Ive had quite a few wines from China, it has never came across the wine list. I'll look into it one day, thanks for the video... I hope (fingers crossed it wont show up on my tests), but it's good to know about it. Thanks

I'm Georgian and you pronounce it close to perfect.

It's kvevry.

Try Mukuzani