Numisi, Kakheti Region, Georgia
4.5 (11 reviews) Spent < 1 hour Ranking #1 in Velistsikhe Speciality Museums • Wineries & Vineyards
Wine making & wine tasting
We visited Numisi’s as the first stop on a winery tour of Karkheti. The museum is run by a couple, and the woman took us on a great tour of the grounds, wine cellar, and house museum. We learned a ton about traditional wine making and got to see many cool artifacts from the region and beyond. After our tour, we enjoyed a lovely wine tasting of their homemade wines and cognac. It seems like lunch is also available if you arrange in advance, but we had other lunch plans so didn’t stay. Their wine and cognac are available to purchase as well. The woman was extremely friendly and knowledgeable. Her English was only okay, so I recommend coming with someone who can translate either Russian or Georgian (our group had both). However, I do really recommend coming - it’s not too far from Signagi and was a good value. A very unique and local-feeling experience!
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Kvareli-Mukuzani, Velistsikhe 0199 Georgia
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Website
http://www.facebook.com/numisi/
Current local date and time now
Sunday, May 12, 2024, 20:55
User Ratings
4.5 based on (11 reviews)
Reviews
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4Eric S J 5:00 PM Oct 5, 2022
Wine within a day trip from Tbilisi
Gorgeous family-owned and -operated wine-making museum and operation in a restored pre-revolutionary stone winery
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4KPR1955 5:00 PM Jun 8, 2019
Very good example
Visited here with a small group tour, the visit was in two main parts, first the visit to the winery itself to see what the history was around the wine making. This was very interesting and we had a very good english speaking guide for this. We were able to see the actual Qvevri in the ground and the process was explained well to us. The qvevri were of differing sizes and there was also a plan posted on the wall. At the upper level was like a time machine of all kinds of old technology, harking back to the old soviet era. TVs, radios, typewriters, all kinds of gadgets. Following that we had the chance to watch a lady make the local shoti bread. We watched her rolling out the dough and then smacking it in the side of a preheated original furnace oven. The actual process did not take long and soon we were able to tuck into some of the lovely cooked bread. Well presented and well worth the visit.
