Grape variety
Zhghia
ჟღია
Zhghia is a grape variety from Georgia. The getwine.ge catalogue lists 2 wines from 1 winery.
- Wines in the catalogue
- 2
- Wineries
- 1
About the variety
Zhghia is a rare indigenous red variety from Kakheti, known locally also as Khiteri, Bzhghia (Imereti) and Mzhghria (Kakheti); VIVC lists it under number 13440. The berries are medium-sized, round, thin-skinned and dark pink to almost black, and because they ripen unevenly the bunch looks mottled. The vine is productive and ripens from the second half of September at 17–18.5% sugar and 7–8 g/l acidity. It goes mostly into blends and brandy; as a dry wine of its own it is pinkish, light and low in alcohol. In Kondoli, Ghvardzelashvili's Marani bottles it as a varietal qvevri wine.
- Origin
- Georgiaper VIVC passport
- Where it grows — by catalogue wines
- Kakheti2 wines
- Missing
- No data: berry colour, tannin, photo
Wines
Wines from Zhghia
Jgia
Ghvardzelashvili's Marani
Kakheti
Made using the traditional qvevri method, aged in a qvevri. Region of Kakheti: a dry red wine from Zhghia. Sources note dried fruit, fig and plum on the nose. Produced by Ghvardzelashvili's Marani.
Nino
Ghvardzelashvili's Marani
Kakheti
The qvevri method, ageing in qvevri. Zhghia from Kakheti. As described by sources: on the nose, dried fruit. Made at Ghvardzelashvili's Marani.
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).
Wines
Our catalogue: the grape make-up comes from the winery's site or the label.
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