Book - Georgischer Wein, 8000 Jahre Tradition, 525 Sorten

Leopold Stocker Verlag
ISBN 978-3-7020-1742-2

Anna Saldadze / Sarah Abbott (Hg.)
218 pages, many color illustrations, 19 x 24 cm, hardcover

Foreword by Rudolf Knoll
Translated by Claudia Tancsits

High-quality Georgian wines are enjoying increasing international popularity - and not only since UNESCO in 2013, the typical local winemaking in amphora has become an intangible world cultural heritage. Autochthonous red and white grape varieties such as Saperavi and Rkatsiteli are vinified to the highest quality, along with the increasingly popular "fourth wine color", the so-called orange wines - white wines that are fermented like reds in the mash.

The fermentation in amphora (Qvevri) is the oldest form of construction in the world and is still widespread today in Georgia. This book is dedicated to her own chapter, which also lists all the autochthonous wines and describes the 40 most used in detail. The wine-growing regions of Georgia such as Kakheti and Kartli and the most important appellations such as Zinandali and Mukuzani are described in detail.

With a foreword by Rudolf Knoll, editor of the European wine magazine VINUM.

Rudolf Knoll has traveled to Georgia several times over the past 15 years, writing about the development of wine and the country.