Why go
Keda Municipality preserves one of Georgia's most isolated winemaking traditions, with family cellars tucked into the humid subtropical valleys of the Lesser Caucasus. Here, Chkhaveri—an indigenous pink-skinned grape—ferments in qvevri buried beneath wooden houses, producing amber and rosé wines with tea-like tannins and wild strawberry notes that differ dramatically from Kakhetian styles. The region's humid climate and steep terrain forced growers to train vines on pergolas up to five meters high, a technique seen almost nowhere else in Georgia. Visiting these cellars means entering homes where winemaking spans unbroken generations, often with qvevri older than living memory.