Country dossier
Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Georgia in the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Georgia
Tbilisi has the deepest dining concentration in our guide, and the strongest restaurants often pair Georgian cooking with exceptional or natural wine lists.
Vinotel in Tbilisi is a Georgian-European fusion restaurant with an a la carte menu and sommelier-led service. The dining space is five separate chambers, each with its own vintage style. Exceptional Georgian wines come from the restaurant’s own cellar, with live piano music.
Craft Wine Restaurant in Tbilisi cooks modern Georgian food with a natural wine focus. Rare Georgian wines are poured with sommelier-led service from an exceptional list. The menu is a la carte and small plates. The restaurant holds a Star Wine List award for 2026.
Barbarestan in Tbilisi serves 19th-century Georgian homestyle cooking a la carte, with an exceptional wine programme and an extensive wine list. The menu uses 19th-century recipes from Barbare Jorjadze’s cookbook, with local, seasonal ingredients. It holds World Culinary Awards Georgia’s Best Restaurant 2025 #1 and a Star Wine List for 2026.
Tbilisi’s wine bars are where the capital’s natural-wine culture is easiest to read, with several rooms built around specialist lists and producer-led selection.
Vino Underground in Tbilisi is a brick-lined cellar bar with a wine programme of natural wine. It holds a Star Wine List award for 2026. The bar is owned by Georgian artisan winemakers and has poured natural qvevri wines since 2012.
8000 vintages in Tbilisi works as both a wine bar and a retail shop, with a conventional wine programme and Star Wine List recognition for 2026. The selection includes over 8000 Georgian and international wines, with sommelier-led tastings and charcuterie boards.
Sulico in Tbilisi is a wine bar with a wine programme, fusion Georgian-European cuisine and Star Wine List recognition for 2026. It pours natural and conventional wine from an extensive Georgian and international list, and the room has a terrace.
In Tbilisi, Rooms Hotel Tbilisi houses the Kitchen restaurant and the Bar Room, Stamba Hotel has Café Stamba and the Pink Bar, and The Telegraph Hotel has nine F&B outlets.
Rooms Hotel Tbilisi is a 140-room hotel in a converted publishing house in Tbilisi. The Kitchen restaurant draws guests and a local crowd. The hotel holds Star Wine List recognition for 2026, and the Bar Room is a gathering point for traditional Georgian wines.
Stamba Hotel in Tbilisi is a converted 1930s publishing house with 42 rooms, an on-site art gallery and a courtyard garden. It has 93.5 points on La Liste Top Hotels for 2026. Café Stamba and the Pink Bar draw international travellers and local regulars.
The Telegraph Hotel in Tbilisi is a restored 1970s Brutalist property, a former central post and telegraph office, with a cultural scene and 239 rooms. It has nine F&B outlets, and the food runs from Thai street food to modern Georgian.
Outside Tbilisi, Georgia’s clearest wine story sits in Kakheti and nearby vineyard regions, where wineries, chateau restaurants and estate hotels shape the experience.
Château Mukhrani in Mukhrani is a historic royal chateau with a restored castle, cellars and gardens, and Georgian winemaking traditions alongside French influences. It was founded in 1878 by Prince Ivane Mukhranbatoni. World’s 50 Best Vineyards listed it at #47 in 2023 and #75 in 2025.
Schuchman Wines Chateau in Kisiskhevi is a Georgian wine bar restaurant in Kakheti wine country, with an exceptional programme, an extensive wine list and an a la carte menu. It offers traditional Georgian dishes with premium wines from indigenous Kakhetian grapes.
Tsinandali Estate, A Radisson Collection Hotel in Tsinandali is a 141-room hotel on a historic estate in Kakheti wine country. On-site restaurants include the all-day Prince Alexander and the Georgian dining room Natella. Gaumarjos Wine Bar pours the estate’s own vintages. The property holds a Michelin 1 Key and has an on-site vineyard.
Tbilisi is the city for serious wine lists in our guide, with 89 venues. Vinotel pours exceptional Georgian wines from its own cellar, and Craft Wine Restaurant pours rare Georgian wines. Among the bars, Saamuri specialises in natural wines and chacha.
Georgia has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Café Littera in Tbilisi holds 83 points on La Liste’s 2026 Top Restaurants list, with an extensive wine list and modern Georgian fusion cooking.
Tbilisi is where the strongest natural-wine rooms sit in our guide. Vino Underground is owned by Georgian artisan winemakers and has poured natural qvevri wines since 2012. Saamuri specialises exclusively in natural wines and chacha. Kancellaria is a newly opened bar specialising in local natural wines.
Telavi, Kakheti and Akhmeta are the strongest areas in our guide for winery visits and vineyard dining. Telavi has 12 venues, 10 of them wineries. Kakheti has 8 venues, 7 of them wineries. Akhmeta’s 5 venues are all wineries in our guide.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
City atlas
Georgia
Selected entries from the current guide for Georgia.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Set inside a 19th-century literary society building on Machabeli Street, Café Littera brings Georgian culinary tradition into conversation with contemporary technique. Holding 83 points on La Liste's 2026 ranking, it sits among Tbilisi's most internationally recognised tables. The address draws both serious diners and the city's creative class in roughly equal measure.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Barbarestan builds its menu around a 1914 cookbook by writer and feminist Barbare Eristavi-Jorjadze, a source that grounds every dish in documented Georgian culinary history rather than modern invention. Located on Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue, it holds a place in La Liste's 2026 Top Restaurants ranking and represents one of Tbilisi's most precisely researched approaches to the country's pre-Soviet table.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A café-restaurant on Giorgi Akhvlediani Street where traditional Georgian cooking meets a wine list drawn from across the country's diverse regions. Alubali offers both indoor and outdoor seating, making it a practical and considered stop for anyone tracing the breadth of Georgian cuisine and its accompanying natural and conventional wine traditions in Tbilisi.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Apotheka in Tbilisi presents modern Georgian cuisine led by Chef Tekuna Gachecheladze. Notable dishes include a Seasonal Tasting Menu, a slow-cooked local lamb preparation and a smoked eggplant mezze with walnut purée. The kitchen emphasizes local produce, clear technique and bold, terroir-driven flavor. The intimate room and cocktail-forward bar create a warm, sensory evening, with attentive service that frames each course. Chef Tekuna Gachecheladze has a growing profile locally, and the restaurant’s focus on seasonal menus makes every visit distinct. Expect precise plating, layered textures and drinks that pair tightly with regional wines and herbal cocktails.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Where Freedom Square Meets the Qvevri Two minutes from Freedom Square, on a street that sees more locals than tourists, Azarphesha occupies the kind of space that takes a moment to read. It is homely in the Georgian sense: close quarters, a...
Tbilisi, Georgia
Part of the Communal Company's multi-city restaurant and hotel portfolio, Craft Wine Restaurant on Egnate Ninoshvili Street brings Tbilisi's natural wine culture into a deliberately curated dining format. The kitchen draws on Georgia's deep tradition of ingredient-led cooking, placing local sourcing at the centre of the menu. For visitors already familiar with the city's wine scene, it offers a structured entry point into how food and qvevri-aged wine interact on the table.
Telavi, Georgia
On Cholokashvili Street in the heart of Telavi, Doli occupies a place at the intersection of Kakheti's wine culture and traditional Georgian hospitality. Wooden interiors, clay vessels, and an extensive regional wine list make it a reference point for visitors navigating Georgia's wine capital. The kitchen draws on the agricultural abundance of the Alazani Valley, keeping the cooking grounded in the season and the soil.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Ferment Wine Bistro occupies the ground floor of a 19th-century building on Lermontovi Street, anchoring its identity in Georgia's fermented-beverage tradition. The format sits between casual wine bar and full bistro, making it a practical entry point into Tbilisi's natural wine scene. For visitors tracing the country's qvevri culture through its capital, Ferment delivers accessible depth without the formality of a tasting-room appointment.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Set in an old building on Lado Asatiani Street in Tbilisi's historic core, Iasamani operates at the fine dining end of the city's Georgian restaurant scene, pairing an extensive wine selection with traditional cooking reframed for a considered, unhurried meal. The room draws on architectural heritage without feeling preserved in amber, making it a useful reference point for understanding where Tbilisi's more formal dining culture is headed.
Signagi, Georgia
Pheasant's Tears is one of Kakheti's most recognized natural wine producers, operating out of Signagi with a program built around ancient Georgian grape varieties and qvevri fermentation. The winery doubles as a gathering point for the region's low-intervention wine movement, where amber wines and obscure autochthonous varieties are poured with the kind of conviction that comes from genuine agricultural roots rather than marketing positioning.
Kutaisi, Georgia
Sisters on Zakharia Paliashvili sits inside Kutaisi's quiet resurgence as a destination for Georgian home cooking rooted in Imereti's particular larder. The address places it in the working fabric of the city rather than its tourist margins, and the kitchen draws on the same ingredient traditions that have defined western Georgian tables for generations. For visitors building a serious picture of Georgian regional food, it earns a place on the itinerary.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Akura San brings a Japanese-Georgian sensibility to Tbilisi's increasingly internationalist dining scene. The restaurant sits within a city where ancient qvevri wine culture now shares table space with imported omakase formats and fusion menus, positioning it as part of a wider conversation about what Georgian hospitality can absorb and reinvent. Details on booking and pricing are best confirmed directly on arrival or through local concierge networks.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Asian Corner belongs to a useful Tbilisi category: small-format restaurants that look beyond Georgian canon while still depending on the city’s produce markets, dairy culture, herbs, and quick-service dining rhythm. With no awards or chef-led tasting format attached, the appeal is less ceremony than contrast: a central Tbilisi stop for diners mapping how Asian flavours are being absorbed into the city’s casual restaurant scene.
Batumi, Georgia
On Batumi's main boulevard, Askaneli Terrassa brings the Askaneli Brothers winery's Kakheti heritage to a terrace setting on Rustaveli Avenue. The format draws on Georgia's deep traditions of table hospitality, where wine and food arrive as a system rather than separate choices. It sits in the mid-to-upper tier of Batumi's dining scene, where regional wine programs and Georgian cooking intersect.
Tbilisi, Georgia
ATI sits on Telavi Street in the heart of Tbilisi's dining scene, drawing a loyal crowd who return not for novelty but for consistency. The address places it within reach of the city's broader restaurant corridor, where Georgian tradition and contemporary cooking have been in productive tension for years. For regulars, the pull is specific rather than general.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Beer Square sits on Akaki Beliashvili Street in Tbilisi, a city where craft drinking culture has grown alongside a renewed interest in Georgian agricultural identity. The address places it in a neighbourhood that rewards unhurried exploration rather than itinerary-driven dining. For visitors tracing the intersection of local produce and informal hospitality, it warrants attention alongside the city's more established restaurant names.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Bell & Gray belongs to the newer Tbilisi dining conversation around sourcing, produce, and a more international style of city restaurant. Its position on Shota Rustaveli Avenue puts it in the capital’s central cultural corridor, where hotel dining, wine bars, and independent kitchens compete for the same evening crowd rather than separate audiences.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Bina 37 occupies apartment 37 on the eighth floor of a residential building on Sofrom Mgaloblishvili Street, operating at the precise intersection of private dinner party and serious dining that defines Tbilisi's most considered eating. The address alone signals what you are walking into: a format built around intimacy, sequence, and the particular hospitality logic of the Georgian home table.
Tbilisi, Georgia
BIOLI HALL pairs Georgian Wellness cooking with terrace seating, mountain and skyline views, and a leisurely pace that fits dinner or breakfast at Bioli Wellness Resort.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Brasserie Buvette occupies a quietly significant address on Lado Gudiashvili Street in Tbilisi's Old Town, where French brasserie form meets the growing sophistication of Georgia's capital dining scene. The wine list is the editorial spine of the room, positioning it alongside the city's most serious drinking destinations. For visitors already mapping Tbilisi's better tables, it belongs on the itinerary.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Café Leila occupies a storied address on Ioane Shavteli Street in Tbilisi's Old Town, where the dining room's worn stone and warm light make it a natural setting for meals that matter. The kitchen draws on Georgia's centuries-deep larder, and the atmosphere rewards unhurried gatherings rather than quick visits. For occasion dining in the city, it occupies a distinct place in the conversation.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Cafe Verde sits on Tbilisi's Tsereteli Avenue in a city where sustainability-minded dining is beginning to reshape the conversation around Georgian cuisine. Pair a visit with our broader Tbilisi restaurant guide for context.
Napareuli, Georgia
Chateau Buera belongs to Napareuli’s resort-side dining circuit, where Kakheti’s agricultural identity matters as much as the room. The draw is less a chef-led tasting-menu narrative than the regional logic of eastern Georgia: bread, dairy, herbs, garden produce, and wine-country hospitality framed by the Alazani Valley.
Tbilisi, Georgia
At 5 Shalva Radiani Street, Chef Konstantin Tedeluri occupies a particular position in Tbilisi's evolving fine-dining conversation, a name attached to a specific address rather than a branded restaurant concept, signalling the chef-driven, personality-led format that has quietly reshaped how the city's serious food scene presents itself. For travellers tracking Georgia's culinary momentum, this is one address worth understanding before visiting.
Georgia
Selected entries from the current guide for Georgia.
Tbilisi, Georgia
The Telegraph Hotel occupies Tbilisi's former central post and telegraph office on Rustaveli Avenue, converting a Brutalist Soviet-era landmark into a 239-room design-led property with a rooftop bar, jazz club, and a food program that spans Thai street food to modern Georgian. A Leading Hotels of the World member since 2025, it positions itself as a cultural gathering point in one of the city's most historically significant addresses.
Tsinandali, Georgia
Set within the Kakheti wine country of eastern Georgia, Tsinandali Estate is a Radisson Collection property that pairs a contemporary 141-room hotel with the grounds of a 19th-century noble estate. On-site restaurants range from the all-day Prince Alexander to the formal Georgian dining room Natella, while the Gaumarjos Wine Bar pours the estate's own vintages. Rates start at $202 per night.
Gurjaani, Georgia
A restored 19th-century manor in Kakheti's Gurjaani Municipality, Vazisubani Estate sits among its own vineyards and parkland, with 19 rooms furnished in Victorian antiques and a kitchen built around estate-grown produce. Rates from $161 per night place it in the mid-tier of Georgian wine-country hospitality, well below the international-brand pricing of Radisson-flagged competitors in the same region.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A converted 1930s publishing house on Merab Kostava Street, Stamba occupies a distinct position in Tbilisi's boutique hotel movement: 42 rooms dressed in leather, brass, and weathered textures, with trees growing through a five-storey central atrium. Scored 93.5 points on La Liste Top Hotels 2026 and priced from $321 per night, it draws an equal mix of international travellers and local regulars to Café Stamba and the Pink Bar.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Set inside a converted publishing house in Tbilisi's Vera district, Rooms Hotel Tbilisi is a 140-room property that channels the Georgian capital's literary and bohemian history through Persian rugs, handmade wallpaper, and vintage furnishings. The Kitchen restaurant draws a local crowd alongside guests, while the Bar Room serves as a natural gathering point for traditional Georgian wines. It sits at the quieter, design-led end of the city's new hotel wave.
Napareuli, Georgia
What began as a seven-room lakeside guesthouse in Georgia's Kakheti wine country has grown into a 232-room, 60-hectare retreat in the shadow of the Caucasus Mountains. Lopota Lake Resort operates its own vineyard estate, Château Buera, and sits at around $164 per night, making it one of the more accessible large-format resort experiences in the South Caucasus.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A sympathetically restored period mansion on Chakhrukhadze Street in Tbilisi's Old Town, The Blue Fox Hotel positions itself at the intersection of local art and hospitality. Seventeen rooms feature hand-painted murals by Tbilisi-born artist Musya Qeburia, while the inner courtyard serves as a gathering point for drinks, live music, and a restaurant grounded in Georgian-inflected international cooking. Rates from $76 per night.
Batumi, Georgia
Rooms Batumi occupies a restored building on Gogebashvili Street in the city's historic Old Town, pairing century-old architecture with a deliberately contemporary interior. The property's inner courtyard sets it apart from Batumi's tower-heavy hotel scene, offering a sheltered, quieter base within walking distance of the Black Sea waterfront. For travellers who want proximity to the seafront without the high-rise corridor aesthetic, it represents a considered alternative.
Batumi, Georgia
ApartHotels Collection By ELT sits on Rejeb Nijaradze Street in central Batumi, operating in the apartment-hotel category that has expanded sharply as Georgia's Black Sea coast draws longer-stay visitors. The property holds a Regional Winner award from the Luxury Collection Group, placing it in a recognized tier within the Batumi accommodation market. It suits travelers who want residential-scale space in a city that rewards extended exploration.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Artizan - Design Hotel sits on Iakob Nikoladze Street in central Tbilisi, carrying Michelin Selected status in the 2025 guide, a distinction that places it among a small group of Georgian hotels recognised for hospitality quality. The property positions itself within the city's design-led independent hotel tier, where considered interiors and attentive service count for more than brand affiliation or room count.
Kojori, Georgia
A Michelin Selected wellness resort set in the forested hills above Tbilisi, Bioli occupies one of Georgia's more architecturally considered retreat settings.
Tbilisi, Georgia
We admit we never saw it coming, but Tbilisi, Georgia is now home to particularly fully realized and authentically distinctive boutique hotels in the world. The Communal hotels make use of antique townhouses in some of the city’s most desirable old neighborhoods, in the case of Communal Plekhanovi, that’s Chugureti, a hip, creative district a short distance from Marjanishvili Square and Tbilisi State University. With just 14 rooms it’s still guest-house-sized, and at that scale, a hotel can aim for a communal atmosphere without feeling crowded or chaotic. The style is a postmodern mixture of period architecture, classic fixtures and furnishings, and a modern graphic color sense; no two rooms are alike, but the hotel presents a unified aesthetic and makes an impression that’s nothing if not memorable. Speaking of communal experiences, there’s a substantial buffet breakfast that serves as an introduction to Georgian cuisine, and later in the day guests mingle in the bar and on the terrace. For lunch and dinner there’s Weller, the hotel’s restaurant, and while it’s worth making time for, it’s by no means the only one in town, the hotel’s lively location invites a bit of urban exploration.
Kakheti, Georgia
Communal Hotel Telavi holds a Michelin Selected distinction for 2025, placing it among a small cohort of hotels in Georgia's Kakheti wine region that have attracted international editorial attention. Located on Cholokashvili Street in Telavi, the hotel draws visitors seeking a grounded base for exploring one of the Caucasus's most significant wine-producing territories.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Communal Sololaki Hotel occupies a address at 6 Kojori Street in Tbilisi's historic Sololaki district, where 19th-century European-influenced townhouses define the streetscape. The property sits within a neighbourhood that has become a reference point for design-conscious hospitality in Georgia's capital, attracting travellers who prioritise architectural character over branded uniformity.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Winner of the 2025 World Travel Awards for Georgia's Leading Design Hotel, Golden Tulip Design Tbilisi sits on Ketevan Tsamebuli Avenue in one of the city's more architecturally active corridors. The property positions itself in a tier defined by considered interiors and attentive guest programming, offering a distinct alternative to both heritage palace hotels and the city's newer boutique independents.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Hotel Afisha occupies a considered position in Tbilisi's growing tier of design-conscious boutique stays, earning Michelin Selected recognition in 2025. Located on Petre Melikishvili Street, it offers a physical address that places guests close to the city's historic architectural fabric.
Tbilisi, Georgia
It says something about the Georgian capital that the St. Petersburg–based Ginza Project chose Tbilisi as the setting for its first lodging outside of Russia. Khedi Hotel is located in the riverside district of Avlabari, close to the Holy Trinity Cathedral and other local landmarks. And the hotel is something of a monument unto itself, at least for devotees of luxury boutique hospitality; its two buildings are divided into 57 rooms and suites in two styles, one a colorful modern re-interpretation of Georgian tradition, and the other a more spare, more subdued, more contemporary look. And though the Ginza Project’s first expertise is in serviced apartments, this is a proper hotel, complete with a restaurant helmed by a highly regarded local chef.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A Michelin Selected property on Ketevan Dedofali Avenue, Margot Old Tbilisi places guests inside one of the city's most architecturally layered quarters, where 19th-century courtyard houses and carved wooden balconies define the streetscape. The hotel belongs to a cohort of Old Town properties that prioritise intimacy over scale, and its Michelin recognition in 2025 positions it within a competitive set that rewards guests willing to look past the international chain circuit.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A Michelin Selected hotel positioned on Vakhtang Gorgasali Street in Tbilisi's Old Town, Mercure Tbilisi Old Town places guests within walking distance of the Narikala fortress, the sulphur bath district, and the dense concentration of wine bars and Georgian restaurants that define the neighbourhood. For travellers who want a recognised international standard in one of the Caucasus's most architecturally layered cities, this address makes a credible case.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Moxy Tbilisi sits at Saarbruecken Square with a Michelin Selected designation for 2025, placing it among a small cohort of internationally recognised hotels in a city where the accommodation tier is shifting fast. The Marriott-owned Moxy brand operates at the crossroads of design-conscious budget and mid-scale, making this property a calibrated option for travellers who want brand reliability inside a city with a growing independent hotel scene.
Batumi, Georgia
Orbi Beach Tower Hotel occupies a prominent address on Sherif Khimshiashvili Street in Batumi, holding dual recognition as a Regional Winner for Luxury Extended-Stay and Country Winner for Best Interior Design. The property sits within Batumi's growing tier of design-forward coastal hotels, positioned for travellers who want proximity to the Black Sea alongside considered interiors. A practical base for extended stays along Georgia's most active resort coast.
Batumi, Georgia
Orbi City Hotel sits at the centre of Batumi's extended-stay hotel tier, recognised as a Regional Winner for Luxury Extended-Stay and Country Winner for Best General Manager. The property's service record places it among the more operationally consistent addresses in the city, making it a practical reference point for longer visits to Georgia's Black Sea coast.
Bakuriani, Georgia
Orbi Palace Hotel in Bakuriani holds dual recognition as a Regional Winner for Luxury Mountain Resort and a Country Winner for Luxury Family Resort, placing it at the upper tier of Georgia's ski hospitality market. Set in the Didveli area of Bakuriani, it addresses a segment where large-format mountain properties meet family-focused programming, a combination that remains relatively rare across the South Caucasus resort circuit.
Batumi, Georgia
Orbi Sea Towers Hotel sits on Batumi's Black Sea waterfront, holding a Regional Winner award for Luxury Scenic View Hotel and a Country Winner for Best Architectural Design. The address places guests within reach of the Batumi Boulevard and the city's central districts, with the building's height and orientation making coastal views a structural feature rather than a marketing afterthought.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Georgia.
Tbilisi, Georgia
At 26 Sulkhan Tsintsadze St, 8000 Vintages operates at the intersection of wine retail and wine bar, with an evening tapas format that makes it practical for both browsing and staying. The name references Georgia's approximate winemaking history, and the selection leans into that heritage, with an emphasis on promoting Georgian producers across a format that works for newcomers and experienced drinkers alike.
Batumi, Georgia
The venue sits at the intersection of the country's natural wine tradition and a growing appetite for serious drinking in the Black Sea city. It is one of the more credentialed wine-focused addresses in a city still finding its footing as a late-night destination.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A candlelit natural wine bar positioned steps from the Georgian Chancellery on Pavle Ingorokva Street, Kancellaria arrives at a moment when Tbilisi's wine scene is drawing serious international attention. The format pairs European food with a natural wine selection inside an intimate, low-lit interior, placing it squarely within the city's growing cohort of specialist wine-focused rooms.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Poliphonia occupies a brick-vaulted sous-terrain on Chonkadze Street, sitting far enough from Tbilisi's tourist circuits to retain the unhurried rhythm that defines the city's best neighbourhood restaurants. The atmospheric interior rewards visitors who seek out Georgian dining on local terms rather than in tourist-facing venues.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Saamuri operates inside Fabrika, Tbilisi's converted Soviet sewing factory turned creative hub on Egnate Ninoshvili Street. The venue sits within a multi-use compound of restaurants, bars, shops, and a hostel that has become a gathering point for the city's younger creative class. It is less a destination bar than a neighbourhood fixture, one that reflects how Tbilisi's social life has reorganised around repurposed industrial space.
Tbilisi, Georgia
In Tbilisi's historic Vera district, Sulico has established itself as a reference point for natural and conventional wine in the Georgian capital, drawing both locals and visiting drinkers who know what they're looking for. The bar sits at 27 Mikheil Zandukeli Street and pairs a considered drinks list with a food programme that treats wine as the primary lens. A few years of operation have made it a fixture rather than a novelty.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A brick-lined cellar bar on Galaktion Tabidze Street, Vino Underground operates as a collective owned by Georgian artisan winemakers, making it less a wine bar and more a direct channel to the country's natural wine movement. Alongside peers like 8000 Vintages and Poliphonia, it sits at the centre of Tbilisi's low-intervention wine scene, where the pour reflects the producer rather than a buyer's list.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Ferment Wine Bistro occupies the ground floor of a 19th-century building on Lermontovi Street, anchoring its identity in Georgia's fermented-beverage tradition. The format sits between casual wine bar and full bistro, making it a practical entry point into Tbilisi's natural wine scene. For visitors tracing the country's qvevri culture through its capital, Ferment delivers accessible depth without the formality of a tasting-room appointment.
Tbilisi, Georgia
On David Agmashenebeli, Tbilisi's most architecturally loaded avenue, Amber Bar operates where the city's natural-wine confidence meets a measured cocktail sensibility. The address places it inside a stretch of bars that have redefined how Georgians and visitors alike think about drinking culture. Come for the programme; the room will hold its own.
Batumi, Georgia
On a quiet stretch of Pushkin Street in Batumi, Dilber Gentlemen's Club occupies a niche that few bars in Georgia's coastal city have attempted: the dedicated cocktail lounge with a character drawn from the classic gentlemen's club format. The address positions it away from the waterfront noise, making it a deliberate choice rather than a casual stop for those who find it.
Georgia
Selected entries from the current guide for Georgia.
Mtskheta, Georgia
Set within a restored royal palace in the Mukhrani valley, Château Mukhrani sits at the intersection of Georgia's 8,000-year winemaking history and modern cellar craft. For anyone tracing the origins of viticulture, the valley's terroir and this estate's scale make it a serious starting point.
Telavi, Georgia
Château Buera sits in Georgia's Kakheti wine country outside Telavi, where Renaissance-style architecture and a working amphora tradition position it at the intersection of ancient Georgian winemaking and contemporary hospitality. Lopota valley's terrain defines what ends up in the qvevri.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Acto LLC, operating as Winery Bediani, gives Tbilisi a production-minded view of Georgian wine rather than a purely pastoral cellar-door narrative. Founded in 2012, it works with native varieties including Saperavi and Rkatsiteli, drawing on Kindzmarauli fruit and a split between qvevri and classical methods.
Chumlaki, Georgia
Alaverdi Monastery Cellar belongs to Georgia’s older, more serious wine conversation: qvevri fermentation, Kakhetian grape varieties, and monastic production rather than tasting-room spectacle. The draw is the cellar context itself, with stone architecture, buried clay vessels, and a small-production focus that makes the visit feel closer to a living agricultural tradition than a conventional winery stop.
Rustavi, Georgia
Alpha Group is a Rustavi winery for travelers interested in Georgia’s wine culture beyond postcard cellar doors. The mood is industrial and quiet, with an appointment-only format that suits a focused stop rather than a casual drop-in tasting. Treat it as a production-led address in a city better known for industry than vineyard theatre.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Artevani is a small Tbilisi tasting-room and wine label shaped around Kakheti rather than city spectacle. The draw is organic, single-vineyard Georgian wine, with Saperavi and Kisi carrying the argument for qvevri tradition, restrained production, and terroir-led drinking in an urban setting.
Akhmeta, Georgia
Babaneuris Marani is a family-owned winery-hotel in Akhmeta, framed by Kakheti vineyards, mountain views and a quiet country-house rhythm. The draw is Georgian qvevri wine from estate vineyards, with Saperavi, Rkatsiteli, Kisi and Mtsvane supported by tastings, cellar visits, food pairings and a stay-over format that suits travelers using wine as the route into the region.
Obcha, Georgia
Baia’s Wine gives Obcha a clear Imeretian argument: indigenous grapes, qvevri fermentation, organic farming, and farmhouse hospitality rather than polished tasting-room theatre. The small women-led estate, founded in 2015, works with Tsolikouri, Tsitska, Krakhuna, Ojaleshi, Aladasturi, and Otskhanuri Sapere, pairing cellar tastings with the slower rhythm of rural western Georgia.
Kakheti, Georgia
Bekauri Family Vineyards is a family-run Kakheti estate near Akhmeta, focused on estate-grown Georgian varieties and qvevri-led production rather than spectacle. Its 111 hectares, Anzor Bekauri’s winemaking role, and recognition for Mukuzani place it in the serious, land-driven side of Georgia’s wine culture.
Tblisi, Georgia
Binekhi Winery gives Tblisi’s wine scene a compact, craft-led expression of Georgia’s qvevri tradition. Founded in 1994, it works across indigenous grapes including Saperavi, Rkatsiteli, Mtsvane, Ojaleshi and Khikhvi, with Kakheti, Kartli and Imereti in the frame rather than a single-region story.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Bolero & Company is less a leisurely cellar-door stop than a view into Georgia’s industrial wine and brandy engine. Based in Tbilisi with major Kakheti production, it connects qvevri tradition, Saperavi and Khikhvi, and large-scale barrel aging through a functional appointment-only format suited to wine education and trade-minded visitors.
Kisiskhevi, Georgia
Brother Khutsishvili is a small family Kakhetian wine cellar in Kisiskhevi, built around qvevri wines, rural hospitality and supra-style meals rather than polished tasting-room theatre. The draw is the link between local grapes, garden-and-vineyard surroundings and a two-century family wine tradition, with Rkatsiteli, Saperavi and Kisi setting the frame.
Sagarejo, Georgia
Burjanadze Wine Cellar is a small family-run natural winery in Sagarejo, set around qvevri wines, garden hospitality, and the Georgian supra tradition. The draw is less a formal tasting-room format than a country-house meal built around Rkatsiteli, toasts, polyphonic singing, dancing, and the social codes that make Kakheti’s wine culture inseparable from the table.
Imereti, Georgia
Chateau Gremisio is a small Georgian wine estate and guesthouse shaped around qvevri tastings, local food, vineyard views, and the fortress setting of Kakheti. The draw is less about a broad cellar than a focused encounter with amber wine, skin contact, and the slower hospitality rhythm of rural Georgian wine country.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Corporation Georgian Wine belongs to Georgia’s production-led wine tier: functional, export-minded, and rooted in Kakheti rather than staged hospitality. The draw is the combination of modern technological lines with qvevri aging, expressed through Saperavi, Rkatsiteli, and Kisi, with tours suited to visitors who want wine education over resort-style polish.
Tblissi, Georgia
David Machavariani is a small Terra Kisi winery operation on the Tblissi outskirts, framed around Georgian qvevri tradition, native grapes, and a quiet tasting rhythm rather than high-gloss wine tourism. The draw is terroir-led Georgian wine in an intimate setting, with a natural production philosophy and a focus on still red, still white, skin-contact, and amphora styles.
Akhmeta, Georgia
Do-Re-Mi belongs to Georgia’s production-led natural wine culture rather than the polished cellar-door circuit. In Akhmeta, its qvevri work, organic sourcing across Kakheti, Kartli and Imereti, and focus on Rkatsiteli, Mtsvane, Kisi, Saperavi and Ojaleshi make it a useful lens on how Georgian terroir travels through clay, skins and native varieties.
Tbilisi, Georgia
G-Wine Cradle of Wine is a wine-focused address in Tbilisi, a city that often acts as the urban gateway to Georgia’s qvevri traditions, indigenous grapes, and long cellar culture. Treat it as part of the capital’s wine-discovery circuit rather than as a documented estate profile: the draw is context, access, and Georgian wine identity in the city.
Tsilkani, Georgia
George Grey Winery is a young beverage producer in Tsilkani, Georgia, founded in 2020 and positioned around Georgian wine with a wider alcoholic-beverage remit. Its interest lies less in an old estate narrative than in the newer side of Georgian production: small-scale, brand-forward, and rooted in place without offering a heavily documented technical story.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Georgian Wines & Spirits belongs to Georgia’s export-facing wine story: a Kakheti producer founded in 1993, working across classic wines, qvevri wines, brandy and chacha. Its appeal is less boutique cellar-door intimacy than scale, appellation language and a broad reading of Georgian grapes, from Saperavi and Rkatsiteli to Mtsvane and Dzelshavi.
Kiketi, Georgia
Gotsa Family Wines is a small family winery in Kiketi shaped by altitude, oak forest, mountain air, and Georgia’s qvevri tradition. Its documented focus is natural wine from organic or biodynamic grapes, with Saperavi, Mtsvane, and an Amber Blend forming the clearest entry points into the cellar’s style.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Kakhatian Traditional Winemaking suits travelers who want Georgian wine explained through production rather than polished cellar-door theatre. The Tbilisi facility links an urban headquarters setting with Kakheti-facing tradition, guided tastings, production tours, qvevri technique, and a broad wine focus that runs from still reds and whites to skin-contact, sparkling, fortified, and dessert styles.
Telavi, Georgia
Kakhuri reflects a large-scale Kakheti model rather than the small family-marani template: modern production, local grape sourcing, and a visitor format built around guided tasting and cellar context. In Telavi, its relevance comes from the way Saperavi, Kindzmarauli identity, and the Old Telavi heritage line connect accessible Georgian wine to a broader regional story.
Tblisi, Georgia
Kardenakhi Winery sits in Tblisi, a useful address for travelers trying to read Georgian wine through place rather than polish. Treat it as part of the country’s broader wine conversation: qvevri tradition, indigenous grapes, and the tension between capital-city hospitality and vineyard-region identity.
