04/17/2026
Georgia (the country, not the state) is widely considered the birthplace of wine, with a winemaking tradition stretching back at least 8,000 years. founded in 2007 by American painter John Wurdeman and Georgian farmer Gela Patalishvili, is rooted in that history and committed to keeping it alive. Working from the hillside town of Sighnaghi in the eastern Kakheti region, they’ve spent nearly two decades tracking down and reviving indigenous Georgian grape varieties—more than 150 of them—that were on the verge of disappearing. They also helped found Georgia’s Natural Wine Association and opened Tbilisi’s first natural wine bar. Their influence on the eastern European natural wine scene is hard to overstate.
We have 12 bottles of each. Join us from 1–4 PM on Saturday as we open them and celebrate a little part of the wine world worth knowing about.
Rkatsiteli-Bodbiskhevi (2024), $26: One of Georgia’s oldest and most planted white varieties, sourced from the Bodbiskhevi subregion of Kakheti.
Adjara Chkhaveri Dry (2024), $29: A rare red-skinned grape from the western Adjara region on the Black Sea coast, producing light, bright, aromatic wines unlike anything else in Georgia.
