Location: Gulgula
Georgia is the world's oldest wine-producing region. For at least 8000 years, the South Caucasus' fertile valleys and protected slopes have been home to grapevine cultivation and neolithic wine manufacture.Wine and viticulture have an unbreakable connection with Georgia's national identity due to millennia of winemaking and the major economic role it continues to play in Georgia to this day. Kakheti is one of Georgia's most well-known wine districts, where the village called Gulgula is located. It is located on the Alazni field, on the left side of the Turdo river (right side of Alazni). It is 425 meters above sea level and 6 kilometers from Telavi.
PIRVELI WINERY WINEMAKER
George (Gogi) Dakishvili has been working in the field of viticulture and winemaking for about twenty years. Gogi's father, Temur Dakishvili was a Christian by origin from the village Jokolo. He also was a winemaker and even though he could not see his son in winemaking field, he had a great role in developing his visions from a very young age. Gogi still vividly remembers all the vintages in his childhood as great celebrations. First touch point with grapes and wine was in the age of 5-6, when his grandfather allowed him to squeeze the grapes in satsnakheli. Gogi is the graduate of faculty of enology at Lomonosov food industry Institute of Odessa, Ukraine. After graduation, Gogi studied chemistry and biology with particular enthusiasm to become a winemaker. Now he is a pioneer of the revival of the Qvevri wine technology in Georgia.
