Dato's Aladasturi Red 2024
Red · 6 × 750 mL · Estate-grown and made · Natural low-sulfite Wine · Qvevri Wine · Gurian WineRED FRUIT, MINERAL, SLIGHT REDUCTION, LIGHT BODIED, HIGH ACID
Think Zweigelt/Blaufrankisch
About this wine
Part of this wine is sourced from one vine tree that is over 100 years old. Aladasturi is a rare Gurian variety that produces a lovely, ruby-colored red wine: dry, lighter-bodied, and fresh.
Tiny small production supporting winemaking in a region where soviets almost killed it.
About Dato's Wine
Dato Kobidze makes fascinating and expressive natural wines from his family vineyard in Erketi in the western region of Guria, bordering the Black Sea. His wines are precious: often made from rare grapes and produced in small quantities, celebrating indigenous Gurian varietals that nearly disappeared during the Soviet era. His wines are made traditionally in qvevri. We should all be drinking these wines. His latest addition is the Ancestors Chkhaveri which is a limited wine made from a single vine (that's right) that is at least 150 years old that used to be trellised up a tree as is traditional in this region.