Terra Georgia Saperavi Qvevri Dry Red Wine

Description

Terra Georgia Saperavi Qvevri Dry Red Wine is a red wine produced from 100% Saperavi grapes. This wine undergoes traditional fermentation and maturation in Qvevri followed by ageing for 7 months in oak barrels.

Terra Georgia was co-founded by Archil Chitadze, and some friends from his student days, as a small, artisan wine producer making just two or three different Georgian wines. The company is located in Atskuri near Telavi, the main city and administrative center of Georgia’s eastern province of Kakheti. Quite soon Terra Georgia won an award from the Georgian Rural Development Agency. With the money they were able to scale up production allowing them to process up to 200 tons of grapes and released 11 different wines in 2022. Terra Georgia have vineyards in the Telavi, Mukuzani and Kindzmarauli micro zones and the wines are produced by Winery Bakhrationi.

The emphasis is on producing quality wines. The wines are made using Qvevri (traditional, clay wine-making vessels) and traditional Georgian wine-making techniques whereby only indigenous yeasts are used and both red and white wines are aged on the skins; the way they have been for thousands of years. A variety of red wines is produced including fresh and fruity Saperavi wines through to heavier, richer styles. They also produce a semi-sweet red wine from the Kindzmarauli region. There are fresher styles of white wines and richer “amber” wines, the preferred term for orange wines in Georgia. 

After harvest, the 100% Saperavi grapes for the Terra Georgia Saperavi Qvevri Dry Red Wine,  including all of the grape skins, stalks and pips (this is also known as “chaca”), are fermented in a Qvevri. The Qvevri is a large earthenware vessel used for the fermentation, storage and ageing of traditional Georgian wine. After the wine has been aged on the “chaca” the wine is then trasferred to, and matured in, oak barrels for a further 7 months. Only indigenous yeasts are used.