Region
Racha-Lechkhumi
132 wines in the catalogue
Latest vintage 2023Bronze · International Wine & Spirit Competition 2025
Lomtadze Family Wines
Khvanchkara
Khvanchkara · Racha-Lechkhumi
RedNot enough data
Appellation of Khvanchkara: a red wine. Awarded bronze at International Wine & Spirit Competition 2025. Produced by Lomtadze Family Wines.
76.40 ₾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
- no data on record
- Tannin
- no data on record
- Winemaking
- no data on record
- Region
- Racha-Lechkhumi
- Appellation
- Khvanchkara
- Alcohol
- 11.5 %
- Volume
- no data on record
- Closure
- no data on record
- Packaging
- no data on record
- Market
- no data on record
- Natural
- Organic
- Certification
- no data on record
organic — from the winery’s natural status
Grape varieties
no data on record
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
Bordeaux glass
Tall bowl with a narrowing rim: gathers the aroma and softens the alcohol — the shape for dense, tannic reds.
Prices
What it costs, where, and how that moved.
Offers on record
2 shops
- WinestoreLowest75.00 ₾28 September 2026
- 8000 Vintages77.80 ₾28 September 2026
Shelf price over time
- Low
- 75.00 ₾
- Median
- 76.40 ₾
- High
- 77.80 ₾
From 18 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.
Origin
Where the grapes were grown.
On the map
All regions- Racha-Lechkhumi — the region of this wine
- Other wine regions
- No catalogue data yet
Appellation
Khvanchkara
High authenticity risk
What to check for KhvanchkaraWhat to check for Khvanchkara
Khvanchkara is a naturally semi-sweet red PDO from Racha, made only from Aleksandrouli and Mujuretuli grapes grown in a small demarcated micro-zone around Ambrolauri. Because these two grapes grow on a very limited area (the core micro-zone is on the order of tens of hectares, within roughly 900 ha of Racha vineyards) while the name is among Georgia's most famous, the volume sold under the name has historically exceeded what the zone can produce, and falsification of the name is well documented in the wine press. What to check: confirm the producer is registered in the Racha/Khvanchkara zone and owns or sources Aleksandrouli/Mujuretuli grapes there, and treat unusually cheap 'Khvanchkara' with caution.
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.
- BronzeInternational Wine & Spirit Competition 2025Major competition · vintage 2023
Harvest weather
The season, vintage by vintage.
Harvest weather
What the season was like in Khvanchkara compared with the previous decade.
- 2023
usual warmth
as warm as the previous ten years here
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 42.600006 / 43.000000. 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.
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.Catalogue record — colour, sweetness, technology and grapes, from the producer's site or the label.
- 2.Shop listings — 2 shops, last checked 28 September 2026.
- 3.National Wine Agency register — appellations and producer records.
- 4.Competition results, with awards claimed by producers or shops marked as claimed.
- 5.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
Lomtadze Family Wines 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.