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Sparkling Wine Festival Tbilisi

Tbilisi's Sparkling Wine Festival gathers Georgia's finest cap classique and qvevri producers to celebrate the country's 8,000-year winemaking tradition in the capital.

What to do there

FestivalSparkling Wine Festival TbilisiUnder the Ferris wheel at Mtatsminda Park, 32 producers of Georgian sparkling wine pour in a setting no other wine festival can replicate: 770 metres elevation, roller coasters running overhead, Tbilisi glowing below. Atenuri — Georgia's only sparkling PDO, from Chinuri grapes on limestone — was the wine of Georgian kings in the 11th century. It went dormant for 30 years under Soviet rule and was revived in 2019. Pet-nat is called 'Machari' in Georgian: grape must caught mid-fermentation in buried qvevri, a technique that predates Champagne by centuries. Bagrationi 1882 once produced 24 million bottles of Soviet Champagne annually from the same Tbilisi cellars.

Wine bars nearby

Wine bar 8000 Vintages Wine Bar Tbilisi's largest wine shop with 1,000+ Georgian labels hand-picked by sommeliers via blind tastings.
Wine bar (Gh)Vino Underground Georgia's first natural wine bar (since 2012), owned by six renowned natural wine producers.
Wine bar DADI Wine Bar & Shop Russian-owned natural wine bar (since 2017) with 500+ Georgian organic/biodynamic labels.