Andria Gvino Saperavi Khashmi

Andria Gvino Saperavi Khashmi is a dry medium-bodied wine form the Kakheti wine region of Georgia. On the nose are aromas of dark fruit and spice. The palate expresses a rich combination of blackberry, plums, black cherries, boysenberries, smoke, and anise–alongside generous tannins, and striking acidity. The wine was fermented and aged in qvervi that were buried underground.

Food Pairing: roasted white meat, turkey burgers or meatloaf, charcoal-grilled lamb, beef bourguignon, beef skewers, Georgian mtsvadi, pan-seared tuna, mushroom and gouda lasagna, pizza night with wood-fired pizza, mature and salty cheeses.

From the Andrias Gvino winery: "We are looking to have high quality wines, and compromise quantity for that. We do not irrigate our vineyards, do not use any fertilizers, and perform green harvest as well. For that reason, we have 3-4 times less crop in our vineyards than usual growers. After harvest, before crushing grapes, we sort them to crush only the best berries and remove not only Materials other than Grapes (MoG), but inferior quality grapes as well, that also decrease our yields. And finally, after fermentation completes, we do not press pomace, and take only free run wine, the rest is going to distillation of our fine grape whiskey, that we call Chacha in Georgian."