Industrial producer

Mukuzani

Name: Mukuzani
Brand: Georgian Wine House

Gold95/100International Wine Challenge 2020

A dry red Georgian wine made from Saperavi, appellation of Mukuzani. The classic method, ageing in a neutral vessel. Georgian Wine House is an industrial producer.

Style attributes

Color: Red
Sweetness: Dry
Aging vessel: Neutral vessel
Technology: European

No data: Tannin

Grape varieties: Saperavi (100%)

Recognition

Gold95/100International Wine Challenge 2020
Major competitionvintages: 2016

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

Vintages: 2016

Origin

Producer:Georgian Wine HouseIndustrial producer

Region: Kakheti

Appellation: Mukuzani

Harvest weather

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

2016
usual warmth
as warm as the previous ten years here
usual September
an ordinary September for rain
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 41.800003 / 45.699997. 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.