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NATURAL WINES BY JAKELI WINES
Jakeli Wines is run by Zaza Jakeli and his brother in Khashmi, a village in the Kakheti region of eastern Georgia that has a big name for Saperavi. The brothers planted their vineyard in 2001 and started selling wine about seven years later, making them early natural producers in Georgia. They farm around 6 hectares at 500 to 700 metres, and their Saperavi vineyard has never been irrigated.
At first they used steel and oak alongside a few qvevri, the clay vessels buried in the ground. Since 2018 every wine has been made in qvevri, and nothing goes into bottle with added sulphur. The whites are amber wines fermented on their skins, while the Saperavi gets about a month on its skins and then a year or more of ageing. We currently stock the Kakhuri Mtsvane, an amber wine from the white grape also known as Kakhetian Green.
