Saperavi

Region of Kakheti: a dry red wine from Saperavi. Made using the traditional qvevri method, aged in a qvevri; alcohol 16%. Sources note black pepper, blackberry and blueberry on the nose and full-bodied and velvety on the palate. Produced by Akriani.

Style attributes

Color: Red
Tannin: No data
Sweetness: Dry
Aging vessel: Qvevri
Technology: Qvevri (traditional)
Volume: 750 ml
Alcohol: 16%

Grape varieties: Saperavi

Recognition

No recorded awards.

Vintages: 2018

Origin

Producer:AkrianiNot enough data

Region: Kakheti

Harvest weather

What the season was like in the Kakheti region compared with the previous decade.

2018
warmer
warmer 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.