Alapiani Rkatsiteli Bolnuri has ripe yellow fruit, quince, sun-baked apricot skins with caramel toffee, exotic fruit. An array of orchard flavours and spice hits your palate, underpinned by bright, fresh acidity and minerals.
The grapes comes from from the village of Khatisopeli, Bolnisi Municipality (Kvemo Kartli), at an altitude of 550 meters above sea level, it spent 6 months on skins, in Qvevri.
“Spicy, citrussy notes and well balanced tannins. This has all the structure of a great qvevri wine. ..there’s ripe lemon and lime fruit” Simon Woolf
"Georgian wines, the great ones, are in demand. France, Italy, London, Japan and increasingly New York are importing. Japan is super nuts over wines from this country" Alice Feiring
ALAPIANI MARANI, Kartli / Kakheti
Organic, natural
Behind Alapiani Winery are the two distinctive characters Merab Mirtskhulava and Avto Gigineishvili. The two know each other from the communist military era and can therefore trust each other truly blindly. Merab is the master on the vine and in the Marani, Avto takes care of all financial matters and the awareness of the ‘brand’ Alapiani.
Founded in 2011, Alapiani Marani have been producing natural wines in two climatically different regions of Georgia: in the Kakhetian dry-hot East in Vazisubani and in the interior Kartli near Okami and Bolnisi There, grape varieties such as Chinuri and Shavkapito grow about 550 m above sea level, where the soil is predominantly alluvial.
Alapiani Marani uses a wide range of Qvevris, with some of the largest (2,000l) buried outside. The authenticity and generosity of Alapiani’s wines have elevated the winery’s reputation to cult status, their wines being loved and respected by all generations of Georgian wine drinkers.