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JAKELI
2019 SAPERAVI
OWNER AND WINEMAKER: Zaza Jakeli
REGION: Khashmi, Kakheti.
REGION: Khashmi, Kakheti.
The Jakeli's were some of Georgia's earliest proponents of natural wine and Khashmi; the now premiere appellation for Saperavi. The style of the wines have developed since the early vintages and are today at their best. Winemaker Zaza Jakeli is making some of the tastiest and most site specific examples we have encountered. His wines validate the importance of the Saperavi variety, the land, the traditional Georgian methods of wine making and the use of traditional wood-fired terracotta Kvevri.
JAKELI
2019 Saperavi.Grape: Saperavi.
The Kakhetian village Khashmi is home to the best Saperavi in Georgia. The Jackeli vineyard is nestled 760 m above sea level with a South west orientation, in the foothills of Tsiv-Gombori mountain range of the Caucuses, surrounded by field flowers, Blackberries, sea buckthorn and sweetbriar. The unique combination of alluvial carbonic limestone soils and the local climate produce intense, dark, rich, full-bodied wine made from the endemic Saperavi grown in their never irrigated vineyard, handpicked, sorted and macerated for 1 month. It is then aged for an additional year or more before being bottled. It reflects its environment and the local flora and fauna. The texture and structure of the wine is as intricate as the aromas and the wine is most deserving of a long decanting or slow consumption over many days. While Saperavi is today as well known as any Georgian variety this example belongs next to the greatest of wines, regardless of place or sort, an upper echelon of expression.