Amber Wine Masterclass

Amber Wine Masterclass

The world calls it 'orange wine' and dates it to Slovenia in 2001. Georgia calls it karvisperi ghvino and dates it to 6000 BC. In 2000, Josko Gravner ordered 11 qvevri from Georgia, 9 arrived smashed, and the two survivors launched a global movement from his cellar in Friuli. At Vino Underground in Tbilisi, a 7-wine flight costs 25 GEL. Rkatsiteli, Mtsvane, and Kisi — three grapes, three completely different amber wines, all fermented with skins for months in buried clay. Kisi was nearly extinct under Soviet rule. Now it's the natural wine world's obsession.