Zvari-Rkatsiteli 2022

In the small town of Signaghi in the Kakheti region of eastern Georgia, there is a small family-owned winery owned by John Okruashvili, who grew up with John Wurdemann’s wife Ketevan (Pheasant’s Tears), and since 2009 has been bottling his own wine under the name Okro’s Wine. Like many other producers in Georgia, the focus of winemaking lies in the passion for ancient winemaking rituals.

This includes fermentation in a Qvevri and several months of maceration of the grape skins.

His white and amber wines are based on local grape varieties such as Rkatsiteli, Kakhuri Mtsvane and Tsolikouri, all of which spend between 1.5 and 6 months in the Qvevri.

This Mtsvane-Rkatsiteli is a white wine without skin contact and without added sulfur.