Red · Qvevri · Experimental · 10.5% ABV
Satsuri
Adjara's own red. A grape that belongs nowhere else.
ABV
10.5%
Method
Qvevri
Style
Red
Tasting note
A dry red from Satsuri — the one red grape that is fully indigenous to Adjara and to nowhere else. Light in colour, low in alcohol, gentle on the palate: wild raspberry, red currant, a quiet note of pomegranate molasses, a finish that ends where it begins. Whole-cluster ferment on skins in a single qvevri. No chemical additives. Natural sediment may appear.
Origin
Satsuri is also called Satsuravi, and in the 1956 national survey of Georgian varieties it had barely fifty hectares left in the world — nearly all of them in the Keda district, the historical heart of Adjaran viticulture. The Georgian National Wine Agency built a nursery programme to keep the vine alive. We bottle Satsuri as a single qvevri each year — a small, steady experiment in listening to what Adjara sounds like in a glass.
Food pairing
Smoked chicken. Adjaran sinori (lazy dumplings with nadugi and butter). Cold roast pork with tkemali. The second hour of a supra, when the toasts grow longer.
Made and bottled in the Khimshiashvili family cellar.
