Tbilisi: Kakheti Wine Tasting & Lunch with 4 Wineries

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Duration9h

GroupUp to 10

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

Four Wineries, Two Cellars, One Full Day in Kakheti

You drive into Georgia's oldest wine region, visit four working wineries with a guide who explains the qvevri method and regional differences, taste over 12 glasses across two cellar tours, eat a fresh local lunch, and return to Tbilisi by evening with hotel pickup and drop-off included. Groups stay under ten people.

Step-by-step itinerary

Full-day Kakheti wine tasting tour

Depart from Tbilisi
Visit more than four wineries
Explore old wine cellars
Taste Georgian cheese and chacha
Learn about Georgian wine making
Enjoy authentic Georgian lunch
Return to Tbilisi

The Experience

Driving out of Tbilisi toward the Alazani Valley, the city noise drops away and the vineyards start. You're heading into Kakheti, the region where Georgia's been making wine for 8,000 years — not as a hobby, but as the thing that defines the place. Your guide picks you up from your hotel in the morning and the van moves east through rolling countryside, past villages where people still use the traditional qvevri method, the clay-pot fermentation that UNESCO listed as intangible cultural heritage. The drive takes about an hour, and by the time you arrive at the first winery, you've already heard enough to know this isn't a generic wine tour.

The tasting itself spreads across four stops, and it's structured so you're not just swallowing wine — you're learning why each one tastes the way it does. At each winery, the guide walks you through the cellar, shows you how the grapes move from harvest to bottle, and pours more than 12 glasses across the day so you can taste the differences between regions and methods. Cheese comes out at one stop, and chacha — the clear, potent local spirit — at another. Groups stay under ten people, which means you're not herded through like a school trip; there's room to ask questions, to linger over a glass, to actually talk to the guide instead of just hearing him from the back of a crowd. Two cellar tours are built into the day, so you see where the magic happens, not just taste the result.

Lunch happens at a spot your guide chooses based on what's fresh that day and what the kitchen does best — it's not a set menu at a tourist restaurant, it's a real meal made from local ingredients, and if you're vegetarian or have dietary needs, you mention it when you book and they plan around it. By the time you're eating, you've tasted enough wine to have opinions about what you're drinking, and the food lands differently because of it. The van is modern and climate-controlled, which matters on a hot day when you've been walking vineyards and tasting steadily. The return to Tbilisi takes the same route back, and you're dropped at your hotel by evening.

What’s included

Hotel pickup and drop-off from Tbilisi in a modern, climate-controlled van.
visits to four wineries with more than 12 glasses of wine tasting across the day.
two cellar tours where you learn the traditional qvevri method.
a cheese plate.
a fresh local lunch with menu chosen by your guide based on what's available.
and bottled water throughout the day.

Good to know

Easy physical levelInfant seats availableNot for heart conditions

Operated by Taste of Georgia

Is this one for you?A good fit if you want to understand Georgian wine-making rather than just taste wine, and prefer a small group where you can ask questions. Plan for a full day out — the drive and four stops are what lets you move from one region to the next and see how the landscape shapes what's in the glass.