Kindzmarauli
Latest vintage 2022
Ikalto Winery

Kindzmarauli

Kindzmarauli · Kakheti · Naturally semi-sweet

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Produced by Ikalto Winery, an estate winery. A naturally semi-sweet red Georgian wine made from Saperavi, appellation of Kindzmarauli. The classic method, 13% alcohol. As described by sources: on the nose, blackberry.

30.00 ₾median of 2 shops · 28 September 2026

Style attributes

What the bottle actually is.

Comparable values, collected the same way for every wine in the catalogue. Anything we do not know is left empty.

Color
Red
Sweetness
Naturally semi-sweet
Tannin
no data on record
Winemaking
European
Region
Kakheti
Appellation
Kindzmarauli
Alcohol
13 %
Volume
750 ml
Closure
no data on record
Packaging
no data on record
Market
no data on record
Natural
no data on record
Certification
no data on record

Grape varieties

stylederived from the wine's styleeverything else is the producer's declaration or a public register. Where a fact is not published we leave the field empty rather than guess.

Serving

How to serve it, and what to expect in the glass.

Glass

Universal tulip

A medium tulip: sweetness reads without extra air, and a big bowl would only let the wine warm up.

Serving temperature

12–14 °C

Serve slightly chilled (12–14 °C); pairs with blue cheese, desserts, spicy dishes.

Aroma and taste

According to retailers

Aroma

Blackberry

Taste

Hue

Red

Goes well with

style
CheeseDessertsFruit

When to open it

Glass, temperature, food and occasion are derived from the wine's style by catalogue rules, not from reviews.

Prices

What it costs, where, and how that moved.

Offers on record

2 shops

Price among similar wines

9 comparable bottles

Cheaper than similar wines

1.50 ₾median 38.75 ₾77.50 ₾

Comparables share colour, sweetness and producer category. Price is a reference, not a quality score.

Shelf price over time

Low
24.99 ₾
Median
30.00 ₾
High
35.00 ₾

From 17 August 2026 to 28 September 2026. The series ends on the figure this page quotes.

About these figures

The median of the shops above is the price quoted everywhere on this page. Each price carries the date it was collected; shop names open the shop's own listing.

The winery

Who made it, and what they are.

No production photography on file

Photos come from the winery's own site, with the source named under each image.

Winery

Ikalto Winery

Estate winery

Category

Estate winery

Origin

Where the grapes were grown.

On the map

All regions
  • Kakheti — the region of this wine
  • Other wine regions
  • No catalogue data yet

Region

Kakheti

1,719 wines in the catalogue

What to check for Kindzmarauli

Kindzmarauli is a naturally semi-sweet red PDO from the Kvareli micro-zone in Kakheti, made exclusively from Saperavi, with sweetness achieved by arrested fermentation rather than added sugar. It is one of Georgia's best-known names and its demarcated zone is limited (open estimates put the registered zone in the low-to-mid hundreds of hectares), so demand can exceed authentic zone output and the name is sometimes stretched to Saperavi grown outside the zone. What to check: confirm the wine is Saperavi from the registered Kindzmarauli zone in Kvareli and that the producer sources grapes there.

Recognition

Medals, with the competition and the year attached.

A medal on its own is decoration. Each one here carries the competition, the year and the weight of that competition.

No awards on record

We do not invent recognition. When a competition publishes results for this wine, they appear here with the year and the weight of the competition.

Harvest weather

The season, vintage by vintage.

Harvest weather

What the season was like in Kindzmarauli compared with the previous decade.

  • 2022
    heat

    unusually many days above 35 °C: in such heat ripening stalls and berries burn

    usual September

    an ordinary September for rain

    no frost

    no spring frost down to −2 °C after 10 April

Where these figures come from

Only the unusual is coloured: warmth and September rain are compared with this area's mean over the previous ten years; a frost means a minimum of −2 °C or lower after 10 April. An uncoloured indicator means “as usual”, a dashed one means no data. How the year went in other zones is behind the year link.

ERA5-Land reanalysis, precipitation from ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service) via the Open-Meteo archive, grid cell 41.900010 / 45.900010. The comparison is with this zone's own mean over the previous ten years: against the 1991–2020 climate normal almost every recent year in Kakheti would read as "warmer than usual", which says more about warming than about the season. This is a gridded model, not a weather station in the vineyard.

Zones sharing this grid cell: 2. Their weather does not differ in this data — the grid is coarser than the zones.

Warmth and rain explain what the season was like; they do not replace tasting and do not tell you whether the wine is ready to drink.

Sources

Every claim on this page has a source.

Sources on this page

  1. 1.Catalogue record — colour, sweetness, technology and grapes, from the producer's site or the label.
  2. 2.Shop listings — 2 shops, last checked 28 September 2026.
  3. 3.National Wine Agency register — appellations and producer records.
  4. 4.ERA5-Land reanalysis via the Open-Meteo archive — harvest weather for vintages on record.

Glassware, serving temperature, food and occasion are derived from the wine's style by catalogue rules. They are labelled as such wherever they appear.

Producers can respond

Ikalto Winery can answer anything on this page. Responses are published next to the claim they answer.

If a figure here is wrong, the methodology page explains how we source, date and correct it.