Festival · Tbilisi

Saamuri Natural Wine Salon

Georgia's annual natural wine movement, now in its second decade — May 2025 brings 40+ organic small producers and independent winemakers to Fabrika Tbilisi's Jungle Room for tastings and discovery.

What to do there

FestivalSaamuri Natural Wine SalonFabrika was a Soviet sewing factory until 1990. It sat abandoned for 25 years. In 2016, MUA architects turned it into Tbilisi's coolest creative space. The Jungle Room — 202 square metres of plant-filled industrial concrete — hosts Saamuri twice a year: 40+ natural wine producers pouring qvevri wines for 150 GEL. Ninety percent of the wine at this festival is exported to Japan, Denmark, and the US before Georgians can drink it. Maia Chokhonelidze founded Saamuri in 2021. The 2006 Russian embargo accidentally launched Georgian natural wine internationally — when Russia closed the door, the world opened it.

Wine bars nearby

Wine bar Amber Bar Tbilisi Sandro Kiknadze's natural wine rebel bar featuring 100+ small-producer wines with European-Georgian food pairings in a brick-walled space.
Wine bar DADI Wine Bar & Shop Russian-owned natural wine bar (since 2017) with 500+ Georgian organic/biodynamic labels.
Wine bar (Gh)Vino Underground Georgia's first natural wine bar (since 2012), owned by six renowned natural wine producers.