Khmelo Winery — Wine in Kvemo Kartli, Georgia

Wine — Kvemo Kartli, Georgia

Khmelo Winery was founded in Bolnisi, in 2017, by vigneron and winemaker Giorgi Khmelidze.
Giorgi’s grandfather — Gurgen Khmelidze — was from Racha, but in the 1950s, he settled in Bolnisi and actively engaged in viticulture and winemaking. He planted a vineyard of Rkatsiteli, an indigenous white grape variety, and began to make table wine using the Swabian method, in which wine ferments in oak barrels or large oak casks. At this time, many Bolnisians were becoming interested in their cultural heritage, particularly the influx and influence of Swabian colonists who founded the city of Ekaterin