Kindzmarauli

Name: Kindzmarauli
Brand: Wine Kakheti

Wine Kakheti

BronzeInternational Wine Challenge 2022 CommendedInternational Wine Challenge 2021

Awarded bronze at International Wine Challenge 2022. Saperavi from Kindzmarauli: a semi-sweet red Georgian wine. Made using the European method; alcohol 12%. Produced by Wine Kakheti, an estate winery.

Style attributes

Color: Red
Tannin: No data
Sweetness: Semi-sweet
Aging vessel: No data
Technology: European
Volume: 750 ml
Alcohol: 12%
Market: Domestic and export

Grape varieties: Saperavi (100%)

Recognition

BronzeInternational Wine Challenge 2022
Major competitionvintages: 2020
CommendedInternational 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: 2020

Origin

Producer:Wine KakhetiEstate winery

Region: Kakheti

Appellation: KindzmarauliElevated authenticity risk

What to check for this appellation

Kindzmarauli is a naturally semi-sweet red PDO from the Kvareli micro-zone in Kakheti, made exclusively from Saperavi, with sweetness achieved by arrested fermentation rather than added sugar. It is one of Georgia's best-known names and its demarcated zone is limited (open estimates put the registered zone in the low-to-mid hundreds of hectares), so demand can exceed authentic zone output and the name is sometimes stretched to Saperavi grown outside the zone. What to check: confirm the wine is Saperavi from the registered Kindzmarauli zone in Kvareli and that the producer sources grapes there.

Harvest weather

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

2020
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 41.900010 / 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: 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.