Kakhetia, the pearl of your visit

To become fully acquainted with Georgia, you may leave out many regions, but surely not Kakhetia with its shrines and uniqueness, and, of course, Alazani Valley with its vineyards. Therefore, we begin our journey with Udabno and a visit to the David Gareji complex - the legend and the sanctuary of Georgia, after which continue in Bodbe, where the Shrine of St. Nino equals in the value to the tomb of the Holy Sepulchre, and then move to the final stop of our one-day trip - the city of love, named Sighnakhi. We will see a beautiful town that overlooks the Alazani Valley with its vineyards and snow-covered chain of the Caucasus Mountains. We will climb the observation towers of one of the region’s most original, notorious, unusual buildings - Signakhi Fortress. Constructing the walls of the fortress would be difficult even with modern technology. To this day, a lot of questions regarding the reason and initial planning of the construction remain a mystery that’s yet to be solved.

Legend about origins of the city, along with its history and architecture, will be intertwined with tasting Georgian wines of different kinds and brands, which are, to this day, made according to exclusively traditional, old-fashioned way.

And the museum of ethnography and the original great works of Niko Pirosmanishvili and Lado Gudiashvili shall tell us the tales of life, love, honor, pride, and everyday human happiness.

 

Another note for your consideration – you pay yourself for the tasting in Marani. The payment is not included, and the decision of how many glasses of wine you wish to try is solely yours. Standard degustation consists of 4 kinds of wine (white, pink, red and black) but you can make it 3 or more. The price is 5 GEL for 1 kind of wine.