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1,000 years of wine

Alaverdi Monastery Winery

11th-century monastery that has been making wine continuously for over 1,000 years. The monks still produce wine in qvevri buried beneath the cathedral floor.

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Alaverdi Monastery Winery
Stock photograph — illustrative, not a picture of this location.

City

Alaverdi

Country

🇬🇪 Georgia

Duration

2 hours

Good to know

Difficulty
Easy
Languages
Mixed

How to Complete

4 steps curated by Wine Memories

Insider Tips

  • Visit during a service to hear the polyphonic singing

  • The monastery wine is sold in the small shop - buy multiple bottles

  • Best visited in morning light for photography

Tagged

  • monastery
  • qvevri
  • ancient
  • unesco

Updated February 2026

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