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A Different Kakheti
4 days · Kakheti & the Alazani valley · Wine, villages & the family table
Kakheti · Georgia
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Duration4 days
RegionKakheti
Best seasonSpring & autumn
StyleTailor-made
Everyone goes to Kakheti for the wine. Few go deeper — to the family cellars where the qvevri are opened for you, the supra where a stranger becomes a toastmaster, and the villages the tour buses pass by. This is four days of the Kakheti we love.
Kakheti is Georgia’s great wine region — the sun-warmed Alazani valley where the country has fermented wine in buried clay qvevri for thousands of years. But it’s also monasteries on the ridgelines, weaving villages, and tables that don’t end when you expect them to. Whether you have four days or ten, whether you’re a curious first-timer or a serious wine traveller, this is a starting sketch we redraw around you.
1Day one
Into the wine country
Leave Tbilisi behind for Sighnaghi and settle in at Lost Ridge, our inn on the ridge above the Alazani Valley. First cellar, first toast, first family table.
2Day two
Qvevri, hands-on
A morning with a winemaker among the buried qvevri, then a felt workshop with the women of Nukriani. In autumn, you join the harvest.
3Day three
Into the Wild East
Off the wine trail and into Vashlovani, Georgia’s “Wild Wild East” — a day of gazelle conservation with the rangers, then supper cooked garden-to-table with what was foraged that morning.
4Day four
The slow road back
Telavi’s market and a monastery on the ridgeline, one last cellar, a farewell lunch — and the road to Tbilisi, or onward, wherever your journey goes next.
Highlights — why this one’s different
Family cellars, not showrooms
We open doors that don’t have tasting-room signs — the winemakers we’ve known for years.
The supra, done right
Not a performance for tourists — a real table, real toasts, and a seat that’s genuinely yours.
Yours to redraw
Four days is a starting sketch. Add a night, swap a village, follow a thread — it’s your journey.
Make it yours
Longer, slower, or a different style
Go longer
Add Tbilisi, the mountains or a second region and turn four days into a full week or more — Kakheti pairs beautifully with Svaneti or Tusheti.
Go gentler
Fewer cellars, longer lunches, slow mornings. We pace it to you — this is inspiration, never a fixed schedule.
Your style
Backpacker guesthouses to ultra-luxury stays, families to private groups — the route stays; the comfort is yours to choose.
The people you’ll meet
Winemakers, cooks & hosts
A journey is only as good as the people at the other end of it. This one runs on family cellars and village hosts we’ve known for years — the reason it feels nothing like a package tour.
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Every journey is tailor-made and priced to you — never a fixed package.
Make it yours
Tell us your dates and your pace — we’ll shape this journey around you.