Bolnisi Old Cellar — Wine in Kvemo Kartli, Georgia

Wine — Kvemo Kartli, Georgia

The winery “Bolnisi Old Cellar” was founded in 2017 by winemaker Grigol Kurashvili.
His father, Murad Kurashvili, taught him winemaking from childhood: the Kurashvili family is originally from Lechkhumi, from the village of Okureshi, located in the microzone of the famous grape variety Usakhelouri. However, Grigol’s parents, after getting married, lived in Bolnisi for some time, where Murad decided to take care of his wife’s grandmother’s old Rkatsiteli vineyard.

In 1996, when vineyards were still being cut down en masse in Kvemo Kartli and the local population was growing high-yielding grape