Grapes: Chinuri
Country: Georgia
Regions:Kartli
Wine Type:White
Vintage: 2024
Bottle Size: 750ml
Alcohol: not found%
¥4,131 除く日本の付加価値税(後払い+関税+手数料)
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Iago Bitarishvili is Georgia's great champion of the Chinuri grape - the ancient white variety native to the Kartli region that most of the wine world still hasn't found. From the vineyards of Chardakhi village, he makes exactly two wines (his wife also makes one). This is one of the two he makes

How does Iago's Wine Chinuri 2024 taste?

Whilst the bottle states 7 months on skins, this wine is more of a clear white in colour and familiarity.

This wine has super cool nose which is unique and complex, with pops of cantelope melon, bonfire smoke, kiwi, green banana and iron alongside subtle herbal and mineral notes.

On the palate: lively and structured, with the characteristic bright acidity of the Chinuri grape, soft tannins, and a long, clean mineral finish as well as more smoke and bursts of quince.


How is Iago's Chinuri made?


The grapes go in whole, skins, stems and seeds, and ferment with wild yeasts in a buried qvevri. Seven months of maceration on the full skins.. but we are very surprised by this as very much a white wine. So we asked Iago, and he told us Chinuri tends to never have a deep amber colour like other Kakheti varitals, but this 2024 vintage was indeed much lighter than usual


What is Chinuri?


Chinuri is an ancient indigenous white grape from the Kartli region of Georgia, rare even within the country, and largely unknown outside it. Iago Bitarishvili is one of the few growers farming it with real seriousness. The name means 'true' or 'genuine' in Georgian. Try it and you'll understand why.

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Iagos Wine - Chinuri
Iago's Wine - Chinuri 2024
¥4,131 除く日本の付加価値税(後払い+関税+手数料)

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Iago Bitarishvili farms two hectares of Chinuri in Chardakhi, a village near Mtskheta in the Mukhrani Valley of Kartli, eastern Georgia. He set up the winery in 2003, and in 2005 it became the first in Georgia to be certified for chemical-free farming. The vines are over 50 years old. His wife, Marina Kurtanidze, co-founded Mandili and now makes her own wine in the same cellar.

Whole bunches ferment with wild yeasts in buried qvevri, some around 300 years old, and no sulphur is added. Output is tiny, around 5,000 bottles a year. We stock his Chinuri, seven months on skins yet surprisingly pale in 2024, and his Blend, a co-ferment of Chinuri with Mtsvane from Manavi in Kakheti. Marina Mtsvane is Marina's own, pure Kakhuri Mtsvane with seven months on skins and properly amber.

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