Kvareli
Latest vintage 2017Bronze · Decanter World Wine Awards 2021
Dugladze Wine Company

Kvareli

Kvareli · Kakheti · Dry

RedLarge producer, own vineyards

Appellation of Kvareli: a dry red wine from Saperavi. Made aged in oak barriques; alcohol 13.5%. Sources note plum, prune and vanilla on the nose and velvety on the palate. Produced by Dugladze Wine Company, a large producer with its own vineyards.

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Style attributes

What the bottle actually is.

Comparable values, collected the same way for every wine in the catalogue. Anything we do not know is left empty.

Color
Red
Sweetness
Dry
Tannin
High

Typical tannin for the grape variety; the wine's own tannin isn't stated.

Winemaking
Barrique
Region
Kakheti
Appellation
Kvareli
Alcohol
13.5 %
Volume
no data on record
Closure
no data on record
Packaging
no data on record
Market
no data on record
Natural
no data on record
Certification
no data on record

Grape varieties

stylederived from the wine's styleeverything else is the producer's declaration or a public register. Where a fact is not published we leave the field empty rather than guess.

Serving

How to serve it, and what to expect in the glass.

Glass

Bordeaux glass

Tall bowl with a narrowing rim: gathers the aroma and softens the alcohol — the shape for dense, tannic reds.

How glass shapes differ

Aroma and taste

As stated by the producer

Aroma

PruneVanillaPlum

Taste

Velvety

Hue

RubyDeep

When to open it

Glass, temperature, food and occasion are derived from the wine's style by catalogue rules, not from reviews.

Prices

What it costs, where, and how that moved.

Offers on record

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Shelf price over time

Not enough observations for a trend yet — the chart appears once prices have been collected for several weeks.

About these figures

The median of the shops above is the price quoted everywhere on this page. Each price carries the date it was collected; shop names open the shop's own listing.

The winery

Who made it, and what they are.

No production photography on file

Photos come from the winery's own site, with the source named under each image.

Winery

Dugladze Wine Company

Large producer, own vineyards

Category

Large producer, own vineyards

Origin

Where the grapes were grown.

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  • Kakheti — the region of this wine
  • Kvareli — the PDO zone
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Region

Kakheti

1,790 wines in the catalogue

Appellation

Kvareli

No elevated authenticity risk recorded for this appellation.

Recognition

Medals, with the competition and the year attached.

A medal on its own is decoration. Each one here carries the competition, the year and the weight of that competition.

Harvest weather

The season, vintage by vintage.

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

  • 2017
    heat

    unusually many days above 35 °C: in such heat ripening stalls and berries burn

    usual September
    no frost

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, precipitation from ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service), grid cell 41.900000 / 45.900000. 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: 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.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Processed: daily values, elevation adjustment. Licence CC BY 4.0. How the weather is computed

Similar in style

Close in style, not in price.

Matched on colour, sweetness, grape and region, and — where recorded — on tannin, aging vessel and technology. One wine per winery, none from this wine's own winery. Price plays no part, and no place is for sale.

Sources

Every claim on this page has a source.

Sources on this page

  1. 1.Catalogue record — colour, sweetness, technology and grapes, from the producer's site or the label.
  2. 2.Producer declaration — tasting descriptors published by the producer.
  3. 3.National Wine Agency register — appellations and producer records.
  4. 4.Competition results, with awards claimed by producers or shops marked as claimed.
  5. 5.ERA5-Land and ERA5 reanalyses (Copernicus Climate Change Service, CC BY 4.0) — harvest weather for vintages on record.

Glassware, serving temperature, food and occasion are derived from the wine's style by catalogue rules. They are labelled as such wherever they appear.

Producers can respond

Dugladze Wine Company can answer anything on this page. Responses are published next to the claim they answer.

If a figure here is wrong, the methodology page explains how we source, date and correct it.