Tsinandali
wine
About Tsinandali
In the heart of Kakheti, Tsinandali centres on the elegant Chavchavadze Estate, where poet Alexander Chavchavadze brought European winemaking to Georgia in 1818. Stroll the English-style gardens, tour the estate museum, and descend into a cellar whose 1841 winery still pours its celebrated white. With concerts and harvest celebrations through autumn, it pairs aristocratic history with the easy pleasures of Georgian wine country.
Culture
A hub of arts and wine, Tsinandali hosts concerts and harvest events. Cuisine pairs with local vintages.
Travel Tips
Currency: GEL; cards at estate. Language: Georgian, English at estate. Safety: Safe, rural charm. Transport: Car/minibus from Telavi; short drive.
Tours Including Tsinandali
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Georgia in 14 Days — Grand Discovery
The definitive two-week journey across Georgia, east to west and mountains to sea. From Tbilisi you explore the wine villages of Kakheti, climb the Military Road to Gergeti Trinity beneath Mount Kazbek, and visit Stalin's Gori, the cave town of Uplistsikhe and Queen Tamar's cliff city at Vardzia. Then west into ancient Colchis — Kutaisi's UNESCO monasteries — and up the Enguri gorge to the medieval Svan towers of Mestia and Ushguli, before finishing on the Black Sea at Batumi. Fourteen unhurried days, every region, expertly guided.
Kakheti Wine Discovery
Georgia gave the world wine 8,000 years ago, and over three days in Kakheti you taste why it still matters. You walk the Alazani Valley, sit with families who still ferment in buried qvevri clay vessels, and learn the method by hand rather than from a placard. You wander Sighnaghi, the walled City of Love, stop at the Bodbe convent, and tour the elegant Tsinandali estate. It ends the right way: a full supra feast, glasses kept full, a little chacha to close. You leave knowing Georgian wine from the inside, not the label.
Kakheti Wine & Tsinandali — Day Trip
Kakheti is where wine was born — Georgians have buried grapes in clay qvevri here for 8,000 years, and this day gives you the heart of it. You'll walk the cobbled lanes of Sighnaghi high above the Alazani Valley, pause at the hilltop Bodbe convent where St Nino is buried, and tour the elegant Chavchavadze estate at Tsinandali, whose 1841 cellar still ages wine the noble way. A guided tasting, vineyard panoramas around Telavi, and lunch with the whole valley spread below — it's the perfect single-day taste of Georgia's wine country.