Adjara · since 1991
Khimshiashvili Cellar
Qvevri wine from Adjara since 1991. A family cellar on ancestral ground. Poured at the family table.
What we are, in numbers
35 Years
25 Qvevri
1 Family
Nigazeuli · 850m
Manifesto
No one owns the wine that comes from the land
We do not make wine. We tend it. From the subtropical coast of Buknari to the 850-metre mountain vineyard of Nigazeuli, our family tends a tradition that survived 264 years of Ottoman rule and never left these valleys. Twenty-five buried qvevri (clay amphorae sunken in the cellar floor). Ten tonnes a year. Nothing hurried, nothing hidden.
Heritage
This land has known our name since 1399.
Khimshia Abazasdze. Selim Bey. Sherip Bey. Six centuries of the Khimshiashvili name in the Adjaran valleys. Our vines grow on the same ground today.
Seven bottles
Tsolikouri. Saperavi. Aladasturi.
Six grapes, one spirit, ten tonnes a year.