Region
Kakheti
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Kakheti · Sweet
Bronze at Decanter World Wine Awards 2018. Rkatsiteli from Kakheti: a sweet white Georgian wine. The classic method, ageing in a neutral vessel, 10.5% alcohol. The winery states: 6 months of ageing; 60 days of fermentation. Made at Telavi Wine Cellar (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
A small glass for a small pour: sweet wine is drunk in sips, and the bowl is sized to the portion.
Aroma and taste
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Taste
Hue
Goes well with
styleWhen to open it
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What it costs, where, and how that moved.
Offers on record
1 shop
Shelf price over time
From 18 August 2026 to 28 September 2026. The series ends on the figure this page quotes.
Other lots and formats
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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: Satrapezo
Category
Large producer, own vineyards
Where the grapes were grown.
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Medals, with the competition and the year attached.
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The season, vintage by vintage.
What the season was like in the Kakheti region compared with the previous decade.
cooler than the previous ten years here
an ordinary September for rain
no spring frost down to −2 °C after 10 April
warmer than the previous ten years here
a wetter September than the previous ten
a spring frost down to −2 °C or lower after 10 April, when young shoots are at risk
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 / 45.500000. 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.
This wine has no appellation on record, so the weather is taken for the region and describes the wider area.
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.

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Kakheti

Vazisubani Estate
Kakheti

Winiveria
Kakheti

Irmas da Katos Venakhebi da Marani
Kartli
Ranked by colour, sweetness, technology and region — not by sponsorship.
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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
Telavi Wine Cellar 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.