Georgia
Saperavi - 2023 - Pheasant's Tears
Gela Patalishvili
A wild nose, with notes of red currants, blackberry, plum, undergrowth and grilled almonds... On the palate: elegant, with lovely soft tannins. With these wines, we have no known references for the flavours we encounter, they transport us to another world!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Wine without added sulfites
- Designation
- Caucasus Georgia
- Colour
- Red Wine
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.1 %
- To drink from
- 2026 to 2031
- rock’n’roll
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100% Saperavi, a popular Georgian grape variety that creates wines with great ageing potential, sometimes called Noir (black). Produced from vineyards in the region of Kakheti in Eastern Georgia. This organic wine is the fruit of a 3-month vinification and maturation in traditional Georgian amphorae called qvevris (amphorae made of clay, lined with bees wax and completely buried in the soil). Aging in qvevris, then racking and directly bottled on the 18th of January 2025. Unfined, unfiltered, without added sulfites.
All of Pheasant’s Tears wines are imported into France by SARL Clos du Tue-Bœuf.
Gela Patalishvili
Gela Patalishvili is a winegrower and farmer in the Kakheti region of eastern Georgia near the Azeri border. His partner, John Wurdeman, is an American painter based in Georgia since 1998 who is as passionate about Georgia’s polyphonic music and culture as he is about its wine. Their friendship and shared love for wine led them to create Pheasant's Tears in 2007. Gela is a true man of the...
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