Georgia and Caucasus Wines: Skin Contact and Amber Wine

About this class

Georgia is the oldest wine-producing region in the world and the birthplace of skin-contact white wine fermented in clay qvevri buried underground. This class tastes eight Georgian and Caucasus wines, four of them skin-contact whites that the sommelier explains in terms of fermentation method, maceration time, and how the clay vessel differs from steel or oak. The class opens up a part of the wine world most people have never tasted.