Georgia
Mtsvane Tibaani - 2022 - Gela Patalishvili
Pheasant's Tears
A complex nose for this orange wine, with notes of honey, almond skin, and an abundance of flowers... A surprising palate – a dry, unctuous wine, with a lovely volume. You can now travel from home through your glass!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Caucasus Georgia
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
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100% Mtsvane, a traditional Georgian white grape variety, planted in the commune of Tibaani, in the Kakheti region, eastern Georgia. Hand-harvested and naturally vinified in the country’s tradition: whole bunches are placed in qvevris—traditional Georgian clay amphorae lined with beeswax and fully buried among the vines—for fermentation and maceration, followed by pressing and aging in the same vessels. Unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfur.

Gela Patalishvili
Gela Patalishvili is a winegrower and farmer in the Kakheti region of eastern Georgia near the Azeri border. His partner, John Wurdeman, is an American painter based in Georgia since 1998 who is as passionate about Georgia’s polyphonic music and culture as he is about its wine. Their friendship and shared love for wine led them to create Pheasant's Tears in 2007. Gela is a true man of the...
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