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Saperavi
A dry red Georgian wine made from Saperavi, region of Kakheti. Made using the European method; alcohol 13%. Sources note cherry on the nose and velvety on the palate. Produced by 6000 B.C..
Style attributes
- Color
- Red
- Tannin
- No data
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Aging vessel
- No data
- Technology
- European
- Volume
- 750 ml
- Alcohol
- 13%
Grape varieties: Saperavi
Recognition
No recorded awards.
Vintages: 2023
Origin
Harvest weather
What the season was like in the Kakheti region compared with the previous decade.
- 2023
cooler
cooler than the previous ten years here
no data
too few earlier years in the record to say what was usual
no frost
no spring frost down to −2 °C after 10 April
Where these figures come from
Only the unusual is coloured: warmth and September rain are compared with this area's mean over the previous ten years; a frost means a minimum of −2 °C or lower after 10 April. An uncoloured indicator means “as usual”, a dashed one means no data. How the year went in other zones is behind the year link.
ERA5-Land reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service) via the Open-Meteo archive, grid cell 41.900010 / 45.500000. The comparison is with this zone's own mean over the previous ten years: against the 1991–2020 climate normal almost every recent year in Kakheti would read as "warmer than usual", which says more about warming than about the season. This is a gridded model, not a weather station in the vineyard.
This wine has no appellation on record, so the weather is taken for the region and describes the wider area.
Zones sharing this grid cell: 2. Their weather does not differ in this data — the grid is coarser than the zones.
Warmth and rain explain what the season was like; they do not replace tasting and do not tell you whether the wine is ready to drink.
Serving
Glass
Bordeaux glass
Tall bowl with a narrowing rim: gathers the aroma and softens the alcohol — the shape for dense, tannic reds.
Aroma and taste
Aroma
- Cherry
Taste
- Velvety
According to retailers
When to open it
Derived from the wine's style by catalog rules, not from reviews.
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