Festival · Kakheti

Gurjaani Wine Festival

Gurjaani Wine Festival celebrates Georgia's 500+ grape varieties each October; over 400 winemakers pour for 30,000+ visitors in the heart of Kakheti, the world's oldest wine region.

What to do there

FestivalGurjaani Wine FestivalThe largest wine festival in the Black Sea region draws 30,000+ visitors to Gurjaani in October. Kotekhi Gurjaani Wine Factory — built under the Soviets — won the IWSC Georgian Wine Producer Trophy in 2025 with a 97-point score. The same building that mass-produced industrial wine for Moscow now beats Europe blind. Chakrulo, the polyphonic song NASA chose for the Voyager Golden Record to represent all of humanity, comes from this exact valley. It is right now drifting past the heliosphere. Free shuttles run from Tbilisi.

Wine bars and wineries nearby

Wine bar · Sighnaghi Pheasant's Tears Winery American painter John Wurdeman built a sacred winery in Sighnaghi: organic biodynamic wines fermented in beeswax-soaked qvevri with fresh market-driven Georgian cuisine since 2007.
Winery Signagi Love Town Wine Walk Signagi's "City of Love" sits above the Alazani Valley with 113km views to Tbilisi; family-run wineries in centuries-old stone houses pour qvevris from Pheasant's Tears and Cradle of Wine.