Georgia
18m
Aug 29, 2026
8,000 Years Underground: How Georgia's Qvevri Winemaking Is Rewriting Wine History
The French didn't invent wine. The Romans didn't either. The oldest winemaking tradition on earth is buried in the ground in the South Caucasus, sealed with beeswax, and still producing something that sommeliers in Paris are struggling to find words for. Georgia's qvevri winemaking doesn't fit the modern wine world's categories — because it predates them by millennia.