Tbilisi: Kakheti Wine Tour, Sighnaghi & Telavi Day Trip

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Georgian Wine Country in One Day: From Vineyard to 900-Year-Old Tree

You spend the day moving through Kakheti's wine villages and historical sites without arranging transport, tastings, or timing yourself. You taste wine and chacha in a working cellar, walk Sighnaghi's old streets, visit Bodbe Convent, and stand under a 900-year-old tree in Telavi. Lunch and an English or Russian-speaking guide are included, and the vehicle is air-conditioned for the full 10-hour day.

Step-by-step itinerary

Kakheti wine tour and sightseeing

Visit local bakery in Badiauri
Bake Georgian bread and taste cheese
Tour Bodbe Monastery and take photos
Walk Sighnaghi and see Great Wall
Lunch in Sighnaghi or Telavi
Visit 900-year-old tree in Telavi
Taste wine and chacha in cellar

The Experience

You don't expect the drive out of Tbilisi to feel like leaving the city at all — the landscape just opens up, and suddenly you're in Kakheti, Georgia's wine region, with vineyards rolling toward the Caucasus Mountains. The guide picks you up in an air-conditioned vehicle and handles the three-hour route, which means you can actually look out the window instead of navigating. The first stop is Badiauri village, where a local bakery is still warm and smells like nothing you've had before — the bread is thick and slightly sour, and the cheese tastes like it came from someone's kitchen, not a factory. You taste it fresh, and then there's wine tasting in a cellar: chacha, cognac, churchkhela, honey. It's not a formal sit-down; it's more like standing around while someone pours and explains what you're drinking.

After that comes Bodbe Convent, built in the 9th century on the burial place of Saint Nino — the legend matters here, and the site feels it. The views down into the Alazani Valley are the kind that make you understand why people built something sacred in this exact spot. Then Sighnaghi, the city of love, which is smaller and quieter than you'd think, with pastel houses and narrow streets climbing a steep hill. You walk the Great Wall of Georgia — it's not the Great Wall, but it's old and it's there, and the museum in town has been rebuilt to modern standards if you want to go inside. Lunch happens in Sighnaghi or Telavi, depending on the day's flow, at a local restaurant where the food is still recognizable as what you saw being made in Badiauri.

Telavi is the capital of Kakheti, and the tour takes you to a 900-year-old chadar tree — a massive, gnarled thing where locals and tourists alike make wishes. From there you can see the palace of King Erekle, which sits in the landscape like it's still waiting for someone to come back. The wine tasting in a cellar here is the second one of the day, and by this point you've tasted enough to know what Georgian wine actually tastes like — it's not like anything else, which is the whole point. The drive back to Tbilisi takes three hours, and you spend it quiet, looking at the mountains disappear.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel pickup from Tbilisi, an air-conditioned vehicle with a knowledgeable guide (English or Russian), wine and chacha tastings in a cellar, bread and cheese tasting in Badiauri village, entry to Bodbe Convent, a walking tour of Sighnaghi including the Great Wall, lunch at a local restaurant, and a visit to Telavi's 900-year-old chadar tree and King Erekle's palace. Return transport to Tbilisi is included.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearby

Operated by Imperial Tours

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to taste Georgian wine in its region without renting a car or planning stops yourself — the fixed route and guide handle the logistics, which is what makes a full day of Kakheti fit into one departure from the city.