Vineyard Spotlight
Ménage à Trois Wines
When the boldly curious founders decided to “experiment threely” and blend together a luscious threesome of distinctively different grapes into one wine, they knew it needed a name that would live up to this innovative, provocative blend. They called it Ménage à Trois. Not just because it was a revolutionary three-grape blend, but because like its taste it deserved a name that would never blend in.
Cakebread Cellars
Over the years, the Cakebread emerge from various difficulties such as vines dying from phylloxera. They've also built their library and started producing wines from more varietals - Merlot, Pinot Noir, Rubaiyat, etc. Expansion of their winery has also began as they start purchasing adjacent wineries and vineyards.
Kikuizumi
Therefore, based on a technique of in-bottle secondary fermentation which he cultivated in Saino-awayuki, he focused on technology used to make champagnes. On repeated trial and error, he successfully developed a product that harmonized the sweetness and acidity and seal the highly pressured gas. In 2016. Kikuizumi Hitosuji was released in June 2016.
Artevani
The most favourable climate and geographical conditions for the cultivation of grapes are observed in Alazanskaya Valley (remember Georgian wine of the same name), a unique area of Kakheti. This amazing valley stretches 110 miles from north-west to south-east at an altitude of 250-500 m above sea level between the main Caucasus and Tsiv-Gomborgskimi ridges. Excellent soils of the valley with a unique geographical location creates exceptional conditions for the cultivation of grapes. It is home to such well-known grape varieties for Georgian wines as "Saperavi" which in Georgian means "dye", "rkatsiteli"-"red horn”.
