Appellation
Salkhino Ojaleshi
Salkhino Ojaleshi is a protected designation of origin (PDO) in Samegrelo, Georgia. Under its specification, Salkhino Ojaleshi is wine from Ojaleshi.
- In the catalogue
- 3
On the label
What the label should show
- The name Salkhino Ojaleshi as a protected designation of origin (PDO).
- Grapes allowed by the specification: Ojaleshi.
Elevated authenticity risk — why
These are requirements of the specification. A label that meets them complies with the specification; it does not prove that the bottle is genuine.
The zone
What its specification sets.
Samegrelo, Martvili district: the Salkhino community from the left bank of the Tekhuri to the Kvibia hills, at about 250 m above sea level. Ojaleshi, a late-ripening local variety, is the only grape allowed; the wine is red, dry or naturally semi-sweet. The yield is capped at eight tonnes per hectare.
In the zone's specification
Grapes: Ojaleshi
Vineyard altitude: 250 m above sea level
Yield: no more than 8 t per hectare
Alcohol: no less than 11%
Bottling: allowed outside the zone
Source: the appellation specification, register no. 977 — National Wine Agency
On the map
- Samegrelo — the region
- Salkhino Ojaleshi — the PDO zone
- Other regions
Authenticity risk
Elevated authenticity risk
Salkhino Ojaleshi is a naturally semi-sweet to dry red PDO made from the Ojaleshi grape in the small Salkhino micro-zone around Martvili in Samegrelo, western Georgia. The variety was nearly wiped out by phylloxera and mildew, the historic zone is very small (published accounts cite about 16 ha by 1912) and production remains limited, while Ojaleshi is now also grown more widely outside the registered Salkhino zone. What to check: confirm the producer is registered in the Salkhino / Martvili zone and owns or sources Ojaleshi grapes there. Region note: administratively this is Samegrelo, mapped here to the nearest available western region (imereti).
No flag
We hold no evidence of elevated risk. Not a guarantee of authenticity.
Elevated authenticity riskthis zone
The name travels further than the zone plausibly supplies, and the question is worth asking of a bottle that carries it.
High authenticity risk
A small zone, varieties grown almost nowhere else, and a shelf volume the zone cannot account for.
The flag says the name on the label guarantees nothing by itself: there is more of this zone's wine on the market than the zone can yield. We do not claim that any particular bottle is fake or that any particular producer is at fault.
Wines of Salkhino Ojaleshi
What the catalogue holds.
3 wines from Salkhino Ojaleshi. The price on a card is the median across shops, or the lowest price where there is no median — a reference, not a rating.
