Dato's Chkhaveri Amber 2024
Amber · 6 × 750 mL · Estate-grown and made · Natural low-sulfite Wine · Qvevri Wine · Gurian WineAbout this wine
Chkhaveri is an endemic Gurian variety that can be produced in an amber, rosé, and red style. This is an "amber" Chkhaveri that was harvested in November. The wine is crushed and just the free juice is put into the qvevri, so it sees no skin contact other than during pressing.
Given that it's a light red grape, the resulting wine has a yellow/amberish hue. Part of this wine is sourced from a single vine tree that is over 100 years old.
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.