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Basignani Winery Special Offer

September 17, 2013 – 1:51 pm

AAA in Baltimore is offering members a special deal for a wine and cheese tasting at a local winery. Events at wineries…

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5th Day in Georgia (Sakartvelo): Birthplace of Wine

September 15, 2013 – 11:47 pm

After a quick breakfast at Chateau Mere, we were on our way to the first of four Georgian wineries. Kindzmarauli Marani is a winery with a large vineyard “library” of well maintained grapevines. Currently the vineyard has 420 grape varieties that can be found in Georgia.

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4th Day in Georgia: Birthplace of Wine

September 15, 2013 – 12:20 am

Leaving Chateau Mere about 10:30 am, it wasn’t long before we reached Teleda Winery. While this is a young winery, they are producing qvevri wines. The highlight of our visit was to see workers carefully putting a pail with cardboard burning in it into a qvevri.

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Traveling the Roads of Kakheti, Georgia (Sakartvelo)

September 14, 2013 – 11:34 pm

We have been in Kakheti for a few days visiting wineries. For Americans, the scene is different than what you are use to. The first thing Kathy noticed was the lack of barns along the country landscape. Cattle, as well as other animals, range freely. There are few fences and we only saw one fence […]

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Day 3 in Georgia: Birthplace of Wine

September 14, 2013 – 12:57 am

On Thursday, we traveled to the Kakheti region and visited two wineries. Later we traveled to Chateau Mere for dinner and lodging. This lodging site also produces traditional wines and qvevri wines. The first winery, MARANI of TELAVI is large, producing about 3,500,000 bottles. They have two brands. They produce numerous styles of wine including […]

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Our Second Day in Georgia, the Birthplace of Wine

September 12, 2013 – 11:23 pm

Our second day in Georgia was as great as our first day. Our driver and our guide, Tamta, from the Georgia National Wine Agency took us to the outskirts of Tbilisi. Our first stop was in Mtskheta….qv

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Our First Day in Tbilisi, Georgia (Sakartvelo): Birthplace of Wine

September 11, 2013 – 6:00 am

Our first winery in Georgia was Tbilivino followed by Bagrationi 1882.

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Our First Georgian Supra

September 10, 2013 – 11:12 pm

We managed to sleep off a rather large lunch and prepare for dinner at Azarpesha in Tbilisi, Georgia. Azarpesha is a wine restaurant and the wines for the evening were made in qvevri. When we arrived we were warmly greeted by Laursab Togonidze who spoke about efforts to increase awareness of qvevri wines and qvevri […]

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Writing a Book about Georgian Wine History

September 9, 2013 – 10:46 pm

There are certain events in one’s life that have a lifelong impact. One happened while I was in high school. I attended a lecture by Dr. Willard Bascom about the Moho Discontinuity. After high school, I couldn’t recall anything about the lecture other than a comment that Dr. Bascom just happened to mention. It has […]

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Struggling to Understand 8,000 Years Ago

September 9, 2013 – 6:32 am

Understanding time has much to do with our own experiences. I have no problem understanding two and three hundred years ago. While teaching fifth grade in the Prince George’s County Public School System, I would help take over 100 students on an overnight field trip to Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. Both of those […]

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