📍 Inner Kakheti
The right bank of the Alazani: Telavi, Gurjaani and Sighnaghi.
Inner Kakheti is shaped by geography: the Greater Caucasus, the Tsiv-Gombori range and the Alazani river with its tributaries frame the zone, and Telavi and Kvareli face each other across the Alazani. In Georgia's wine country this is where Rkatsiteli and Saperavi are the main grapes, around Telavi, Gurjaani and Sighnaghi.
A regional paper puts the vineyards at about 350-750 m above sea level, while the Kakheti appellation rules allow about 200 to 720 m, with most at 400-700 m. Soils include brown, brown-meadow, chernozem, and alluvial and deluvial types. Kakheti has three agro-climatic zones, subtropical, warm and moderately warm, with annual precipitation of roughly 400-800 mm.
How it connects to Wine
📍 Inner Kakheti ← grows in ← 🍇 Saperavi → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 📍 Kakheti
- Grapes
- 🍇 Rkatsiteli, 🍇 Saperavi
Frequently asked questions
How high are the vineyards?
About 350-750 m, and most Kakheti vineyards lie at 400-700 m.
Which towns face each other across the Alazani?
Telavi and Kvareli.
What are the three agro-climatic zones?
Subtropical, warm and moderately warm.
Similar
📍 Outer Kakheti · 📍 Alazani Valley · 📍 Ijevan · 📍 Shamkir · 📍 Guba-Khachmaz · 📍 Sheki-Zagatala
Sources
- Georgia.to: Georgia's 29 wine appellations (National Wine Agency catalogue)
- Law of Georgia on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications (Matsne)
- CBW: Sazanos Otskhanuri added to Georgian PDO list
- Kakheti geographical indication paper
- Wine With Seth: Kakheti