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Three days on the Caucasus slopes, then the sulphur baths and wine cellars of a mild Georgian winter.

Pick grapes, tread them, seal the qvevri and sit at the harvest table — the most joyful weeks in the Georgian year.

The complete Georgia: capital and wine, the Kazbegi highway, Svaneti’s towers and the Black Sea, ending in Batumi.

The country’s essentials in a week: capital, mountains, wine, cave cities and the ancient west — private, unhurried, boutique hotels throughout.

Georgia’s quietest region: pine forests, alpine lakes and the semi-sweet red the Soviets made famous.

Sea and mountains in one weekend: Batumi’s boulevard, then stone bridges, waterfalls and highland villages.

Three of western Georgia’s natural wonders in a single day from Kutaisi.

Mineral water, mountain air and a fortress — the classic Georgian spa escape.

Eight thousand years of winemaking in one day: qvevri cellars, a hilltop town and the Alazani valley under the Caucasus.

The Georgian Military Highway to the church beneath Mount Kazbek — the single most recognisable view in the country.

Two capitals in one day: fifteen centuries of Tbilisi, then the cathedral where Georgia became Christian.

A three-thousand-year-old rock city and the strangest museum in Georgia, with Mtskheta on the way.