Industrial producer

Krakhuna

Name: Krakhuna
Brand: Georgian Wine House

Georgian Wine House · Alexandrov Wine Collection

CommendedInternational Wine Challenge 2023 Bronze87/100Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 CommendedInternational Wine Challenge 2022

Style attributes

Color: White
Sweetness: Dry
Alcohol: 12%

No data: Tannin, Aging vessel, Technology

Grape varieties: Krakhuna (100%)

Recognition

CommendedInternational Wine Challenge 2023
Major competitionvintages: 2021
Bronze87/100Decanter World Wine Awards 2022
Major competitionvintages: 2020
CommendedInternational Wine Challenge 2022
Major competitionvintages: 2020
BronzeInternational Wine Challenge 2021
Major competitionvintages: 2020

Medals are weighted by competition credibility — a gold from a pay-to-play contest is not a gold from Decanter.

Vintages: 2021, 2020

Origin

Producer:Georgian Wine HouseIndustrial producer

Region: Imereti

Harvest weather

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

2021
heat
unusually many days above 35 °C: in such heat ripening stalls and berries burn
wet September
a wetter September than the previous ten
no frost
no spring frost down to −2 °C after 10 April
2020
usual warmth
as warm as the previous ten years here
dry September
a drier September than the previous ten
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, precipitation from ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service) via the Open-Meteo archive, grid cell 42.199997 / 43.000000. 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.

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.