Red grape variety
Orbeluri Ojaleshi
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Orbeluri Ojaleshi is a red grape variety from Georgia. In the National Wine Agency's 2025 vineyard cadastre it covers 40 ha on 1,298 plots, 38 ha of them in Racha-Lechkhumi.
- Wines in the catalogue
- 5
- Wineries
- 5
- Vineyards, ha · cadastre 2025
- 40
About the variety
Orbeluri Ojaleshi, or simply Orbeluri, is a red variety from Lechkhumi, grown in small plots in villages of the Tsageri district such as Orbeli and Lajana, and recommended by Georgian regulations for Lechkhumi. It is thought to have been brought from Samegrelo and named after the village where it first spread, but ampelographers regard it as unrelated to the Ojaleshi of Samegrelo. It gives well-coloured, light dry and naturally semi-sweet reds.
- Berry colour
- red
- Origin
- Georgiaper VIVC passport
- Where it grows — by catalogue wines
- Racha-Lechkhumi2 wines
- Samegrelo1 wine
- Vineyards · cadastre 2025
- Racha-Lechkhumi38 ha
- Kartli1.3 ha
- Imereti0.8 ha
- Samegrelo0.2 ha
1,298 plots · Vine age: before 1990 — 26 ha, 1990–2009 — 10 ha, since 2010 — 4 ha
- Missing
- No data: tannin, photo
Wines
Wines from Orbeluri Ojaleshi
Ojaleshi Orbeluri
Bagrati's Wine
A semi-sweet red Georgian wine made from Orbeluri Ojaleshi. Made using the traditional qvevri method; alcohol 14%. Produced by Bagrati's Wine.
Orbeluri
Bimbili
Racha-Lechkhumi
Orbeluri Ojaleshi from Racha-Lechkhumi: a dry rosé Georgian wine. Made at Bimbili.
Orbeluri Ojaleshi
Oda Family Winery
Racha-Lechkhumi
Made at Oda Family Winery. Region of Racha-Lechkhumi: a dry rosé wine from Orbeluri Ojaleshi. Made using the traditional qvevri method, aged in a qvevri; alcohol 12.5%. Declared: organic, low-sulfur and wild-yeast.
Ucha Kochi
Martvilis Marani
Samegrelo
A dry red Georgian wine made from Ojaleshi, Orbeluri Ojaleshi and Aladasturi, region of Samegrelo. Made using the traditional qvevri method, aged in a qvevri; 60 days of skin maceration. Alcohol 10.5%. Made at Martvilis Marani.
Orbeluri Ojaleshi
BudaKhari
A red Georgian wine made from Ojaleshi and Orbeluri Ojaleshi. Produced by BudaKhari.
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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