Twins Wine Cellar

Where 8,000 years of wine still breathe

Twins Wine Cellar

The Twins Wine Cellar in Napareuli is the living archive of Georgian viticulture, run by brothers Gia and Gela Gamtkitsulashvili, whose family has made wine here for generations. Their qvevri marani houses dozens of clay vessels buried underground—the same method UNESCO recognized as Intangible Cultural Heritage. The attached Museum of Viticulture and Ethnography displays ancient pressing tools, traditional costumes, and archaeological finds from the region. What distinguishes Twins is the immersion: visitors crush grapes by foot in the harvest season, learn to bake shoti bread in tone ovens, and taste amber wines made from endemic Rkatsiteli and Kisi grapes fermented with skins for months. It is wine not as product but as continuous practice, unchanged since the Neolithic.

On the ground See

  • The qvevri marani with its earthenware vessels buried shoulder-deep in the cellar floor, each lined with beeswax and ready for the autumn harvest
  • The Museum of Viticulture's collection of 19th-century drinking horns, cellar tools, and ethnographic photographs of Kakhetian village life
  • Hands-on khinkali and shoti bread-making sessions in the traditional kitchen, paired with vertical tastings of family reserve wines

Practical Know before you go

Best visited September–October during Rtveli harvest; Napareuli is 100km east of Tbilisi via the Tbilisi–Lagodekhi highway, with tastings by appointment.

Last reviewed 25 August 2026 · reviewed quarterly