Producers
Introducing our winemakers, who bring Georgia’s vine to life.
Wild (y) East Reaches Rhode Island
There is a word in Georgian that translates to something similar to “feast.” A supra is not merely a meal though. It is a social event: a table, a toastmaker, a sequence of glasses (sometimes bowls; sometimes horns) raised in a specific order, food arriving in waves, strangers becoming friends before the night is over. It is, in the best sense, a gathering around wine. And this past Thursday evening in Rhode Island, that tradition found an unlikely stage: the deck of a boat drifting past the Jamestown coastline.
Buzzy Bottles: The Sound of Georgian Wine Goes West
There is a sound Georgian wine makes that you cannot quite name. It is not the pop of a cork or the glug of a pour. It is the low, ambient hum of a supra table filling with bottles, and the clinking, the laughter, the toasts stacking on top of each other like sediment. It is the noise of eight thousand years of winemaking culture pressing against the walls of a wine bar in Brooklyn or a bottle shop in Copenhagen, trying to be heard.
Saperavi Brothers Now in Missouri!
There’s a particular kind of conversation that happens at a tasting table. Not the kind where someone lectures you about soil types, but the kind where someone picks up a glass, takes a sip, and says something like, “I didn’t know wine could taste like this.” We had that conversation a lot this July as Saperavi Brothers announced our new distribution partnership with Veritas in Missouri.
The wine industry is a tightly knit ecosystem built on relationships.
We cut our teeth in this business on the distribution side. Introducing a little know wine region with unfamiliar, hard to pronounce grapes taught us a lot. We have a tremendous appreciation for the distributors and their sales teams and all the hard work that goes into servicing accounts.
Distributors
Shops are the gate keepers, the curators and the trend setters.
Through out our time working with wine directors and purchasing managers, we often reflected on how much power shops actually hold in the marketplace. The ones that connect with consumers, are able to harness that power and wield significant influence.
