British Wine Professionals Visited Georgia
Sarah Abbott, the British Master of Wine, the Head of the contractor company of the National Wine Agency, "Swirl Wine Group", and a group of 11 wine professionals visited Georgia with the support of the National Wine Agency.
Within the introduction tour to Georgian wine industry, the guests visited Georgian wine producing companies in Kakheti and Kartli and tasted different styles of Georgian wine. The British wine professionals got introduced to the diversity of Georgian grape varieties at the research and demonstration base of perennial crops of Jighaura of the Agricultural Scientific Research Center of the Ministry of Environmental protection and Agriculture.
The guests visited the wine-maker Zaza Kbilashvili in Kakheti and got introduced to the details of the technological process of making the Qvevri.
British wine professionals had the opportunity to get to know the wines of 15 different companies at a tasting organized especially for them in Tbilisi. Within the event, meetings were also held in B2B format. Georgian wine producers received evaluations and recommendations from British professionals.
Great Britain is one of the important strategic markets for Georgian wine, where various marketing measures are carried out with the financial and organizational support of the National Wine Agency.