Sesikeli Rkatsiteli Dry Amber 2018

Traditional natural wine from the Republic of Georgia, which many consider to be the birthplace of wine. Located in the Kakheti region of Georgia, Sesikeli Winery is owned and operated by Simon Sesikashvili and his son Goga. With an annual production of just 5,000 bottles, Sesikeli wines are handcrafted and aged in qvevri to produce an unmatched dry amber wine with honey, walnut and dried fruits and flowers on the nose and 13% ABV. Six months skin contact, two months fermentation in qvevri, aged 12 months in qvevri.

At the Sesikeli Winery, Simon Sesikashvili makes amber wines in traditional qvevri, the way his ancestors did. He learned winemaking by working alongside his family as a child, then continued his studies and began bottling and commercially selling wine for the first time in 2016. Sesikeli produces all of their wines in traditional qvevris. Both white and red grapes are fermented with their skins in qvevri for six months. This gives the red wines a deep purple color, and the whites get their characteristic amber hue. The wines are then aged in the sealed qvevris for up to several years. The clay vessel naturally and gently filters the wine during this period as well. Every part of the winemaking process is done by hand. This millennia-old tradition was recently added to UNESCO’s world heritage list.

Practicing organic & biodynamic, low SO2, no additives, unfiltered, dry farmed, vegan, hand-harvested & sorted, native yeasts.