Baia's Tsolikouri 2025
Amber · 12 × 750 mL · Woman-made wine · Imeretian wine · Low-interventionNotes from the 2024 vintage
Wonderful aromas of honey, citrus and a touch of cider notes are followed by a refreshing and crisp wine that finishes with just slight tannin and great minerality. A great introduction to a skin contact style.
- 3 1500 L qvevris
- 30% skin contact, 1 month in qvevri
- Racked off-skins in November into stainless steel, where it remains for a month
- Bottled in March
About this wine
A vineyard selection of Tsolikouri by young woman winemaker Baia Abuladze, her sister Gvantsa, and her brother Giorgi.
The west of Georgia is very humid. Accordingly, its indigenous varieties all tend to have higher acidity to survive the climate. Tsolikouri is the most-planted grape in the western region of Imereti and the single grape of which Baia has planted the most.
All the fruit is estate-grown in the village of Obcha, hand picked, and hand sorted. After destemming the wine is pressed and put into qvevri with partial skin contact and fermentation starts spontaneously.
About Baia's Wine
Baia Abuladze is a young woman, who together with her sister, Gvantsa Abuladze, and their family in Obcha, Imereti in the west of Georgia, are bringing new life and energy to a region with a storied history but whose winemaking traditions had suffered greatly, under communism. Lighter, vibrant and acid driven and purposeful wines.