Region
Kakheti
1,719 wines in the catalogue
Independent guide. Every verdict carries its sources — producers can respond.
Independent guide to Georgian wine

Kvareli · Kakheti · Dry
Appellation of Kvareli: a dry red wine from Saperavi. Made using the European method, aged in oak barriques; alcohol 13%. Sources note blackberry, chocolate and plum on the nose and full-bodied on the palate. Made at Shumi Winery (a large producer with its own vineyards).
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.
Grape varieties
How to serve it, and what to expect in the glass.
Glass
Tall bowl with a narrowing rim: gathers the aroma and softens the alcohol — the shape for dense, tannic reds.
Aroma and taste
According to retailersAroma
Taste
Hue
When to open it
Glass, temperature, food and occasion are derived from the wine's style by catalogue rules, not from reviews.
What it costs, where, and how that moved.
Offers on record
1 shop
Price among similar wines
82 comparable bottles
Pricier than similar wines
Comparables share colour, sweetness and producer category. Price is a reference, not a quality score.
Shelf price over time
From 26 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.
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
Line: Iberiuli
Category
Large producer, own vineyards
Where the grapes were grown.
On the map
All regionsMedals, 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.
The season, vintage by vintage.
What the season was like in Kvareli compared with the previous decade.
unusually many days above 35 °C: in such heat ripening stalls and berries burn
an ordinary September for rain
no spring frost down to −2 °C after 10 April
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.
Close in style, not in price.

Badagoni

Shengeli
Racha-Lechkhumi

Tbilvino

Villa Chven
Ranked by colour, sweetness, technology and region — not by sponsorship.
Every claim on this page has a source.
Sources on this page
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
Shumi 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.