29.06.2012. The 4th edition of the biennial National Georgian National Wine Competition held in the capital, Tbilisi last month was delightful but small competition featuring Georgian wines that evidenced an improved quality of Georgian wines, writes our contributor John Salvi MW, who was one of the judges.
I was very excited when I was invited to judge the 4th Georgian National Wine Competition, a competition organised by the «Wine History Foundation» and which has taken place every 2 years since 2006. I had only been to Georgia known as ‘the cradle of wine’, and Tbilisi once before and that was to estimate the value of Stalin’s old cellar in gloomy and humid cellars with the romantic name of “Number One Warehouse”! An almost impossible job as the labels had rotted off due to the excessive damp.
I was very excited when I was invited to judge the 4th Georgian National Wine Competition, a competition organised by the «Wine History Foundation» and which has taken place every 2 years since 2006. I had only been to Georgia known as ‘the cradle of wine’, and Tbilisi once before and that was to estimate the value of Stalin’s old cellar in gloomy and humid cellars with the romantic name of “Number One Warehouse”! An almost impossible job as the labels had rotted off due to the excessive damp.