Grape variety
Budeshuri Tsiteli
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Budeshuri Tsiteli is a grape variety from Georgia. In the National Wine Agency's 2025 vineyard cadastre it covers 5.1 ha on 17 plots, 4.8 ha of them in Kakheti.
- Wines in the catalogue
- 1
- Wineries
- 1
- Vineyards, ha · cadastre 2025
- 5.1
About the variety
Budeshuri Tsiteli, 'red Budeshuri', is an old eastern Georgian variety that growers also call Shavi (black) Budeshuri. It is first of all a table grape, standing out among the region's table varieties for its handsome bunches, but its wine is harmonious with a pleasant aroma. It ripens mid-season on vigorous vines, matures its canes well and has fair resistance to fungal disease and moderate tolerance of winter frost and drought. It is a different variety from Saperavi Budeshurisebri, the 'Budeshuri' of Kakhetian labels, and from the white Tetri Budeshuri. Rarely planted today; Tedo's Marani bottles it as a varietal wine.
- Origin
- Georgiaper VIVC passport
- Where it grows — by catalogue wines
- Kakheti1 wine
- Vineyards · cadastre 2025
17 plots · Vine age: before 1990 — 0 ha, 1990–2009 — 1 ha, since 2010 — 4 ha
- Missing
- No data: berry colour, tannin, photo
Where the data comes from
Sources for this page
Description
Facts from ampelographic sources and the country's official registers, in our own words.
Origin
The variety's passport in the Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC).
Vineyard area
Vineyard cadastre 2025, National Wine Agency: plots registered under this variety; plots without an identified variety are not counted.
Wines
Our catalogue: the grape make-up comes from the winery's site or the label.
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