Kakheti Wine & “The City of Love”

Not the best sightseeing day but we had an awesome guide. Great conversations despite hours of driving to nowhere. Above is a traditional wine jar on a wagon. They still ferment wine in these terracotta vessels. Below is an array of wines we tasted at the Giuaani vineyard. We bought 5. 

Below is a storage rack at the vineyard, along with the fermenting chambers in the floor (with the terracotta jars)

Street vendors selling booze, oil and honey

Sighnani  “City of Love”

The Bodbe church

Streets of Sighnani

Back street cafes in old Tbilisi

Rare photo of the Queen of Tbilisi . . . .

 Observation balloon over Tbilisi

“Thinly sliced” prosciutto— bone-in. 

Night club in Tbilisi

 

Some sculptures along the way

The tomada (aka toastmaster) controls all toasts and drinking at a party. This was the puppet master behind all of my bad behavior?!