OIV Master Students Are Highly Impressed by Qvevri Wine
International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) students of wine management master program are learning Georgian wine culture and modern wine-making.
A 18-man group is visiting Georgia this week. Within the introduction tour, masters were in Kakheti and saw Georgian wine-maker companies, learnt Qvevri-making technology and tasted different Georgian wines.They visited the museum of National Wine Agency in Tbilisi, where presentation about Georgian wine culture was made for them.
As the head of National Wine Agency, Giorgi Samanishvili stated, this is the second time OIV masters visited Georgia .
“International Organisation of Vine and Wine, which has the head-office in Paris, has mastering program and the students learn wine-making fields of various countries. Georgia has been in this program for two years now, and the representatives of the organization learn wine-making and viticulture field with it\'s traditions, culture and uniqueness on the place” - noted Giorgi Samanishvili.
Qvevri wine and it\'s special technology impressed the guests especially.
Before our visit in Georgia, we had some information, but the result of the visit exceeded all the expectations. Especially interesting we found Georgian wine history, traditions, Qvevri wine, Georgian people\'s hospitality, culture and Georgian singing in general. It\'s impressive how the history and modernity is combined. Many countries have no complete information about all of this” - noted the leader of the group, Sandra Combat.