Saperavi

Name: Saperavi
Brand: Tchotiashvili

Tchotiashvili · Best Vintage

Red · dry · Kakheti

Saperavi from Kakheti: a dry red Georgian wine. Made using the traditional qvevri method, aged in a qvevri. Sources note bell pepper, dark berries and black pepper on the nose and full-bodied and velvety on the palate. Produced by Tchotiashvili, an estate winery.

Style attributes

Color: Red
Sweetness: Dry
Aging vessel: Qvevri
Technology: Qvevri (traditional)

No data: Tannin

Grape varieties: Saperavi

Recognition: No recorded awards.

Vintages: 2017

Origin

Producer:TchotiashviliEstate winery

Region: Kakheti

Harvest weather

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

2017
warmer
warmer than the previous ten years here
usual September
an ordinary September for rain
spring frost
a spring frost down to −2 °C or lower after 10 April, when young shoots are at risk

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 41.900010 / 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.