Tsarapi

The qvevri method, ageing in qvevri, 13% alcohol. Rkatsiteli from Tsarapi: a dry amber Georgian wine. As described by sources: on the nose, peach; on the palate, velvety. Produced by Akriani.

Style attributes

Color: Amber
Tannin: No data
Sweetness: Dry
Aging vessel: Qvevri
Technology: Qvevri (traditional)
Volume: 750 ml
Alcohol: 13%

Grape varieties: Rkatsiteli

Recognition

No recorded awards.

Vintages: 2022

Origin

Producer:AkrianiNot enough data

Region: Kakheti

Appellation: Tsarapi

Harvest weather

What the season was like in Tsarapi compared with the previous decade.

2022
usual warmth
as warm as 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 41.699997 / 45.900010. 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.

Zones sharing this grid cell: 3. 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

Amber wine glass

A wide bowl with high walls: skin-contact wine is tannic like a red and needs air, but is served cooler.

Serving temperature: 12–14 °C
Amber wines behave like light reds: poultry, pork, hard cheese, walnut dishes.
Do not over-chill: below 10 °C tannins turn harsh.