Femme Fête with Simonica and Tilisma Winery
Femme Fête comes to Boston in February 2026, bringing a signature mix of great wine, inspiring stories, and women-led creativity to the city. Femme Fête is celebrating female makers from around the world, and this year Georgia is making a particularly strong impression. Among the many gifted producers pouring in Boston are two of Saperavi Brothers’ producers: Simonica and Tilisma Winery.
Chelti Winery: Age-Worthy Georgian Wines
Ana Mirianashvili of Chelti Winery was recently interviewed by the wine and spirits platform Unicorn on the age-worthiness of Georgian wines. The article’s writer Carissa Chesanek details the history of Georgian wines as highly age-worthy due to ancient winemaking traditions, particularly the use of qvevri, underground clay vessels that allow slow, stable fermentation and maturation. These methods produce structured red wines from Saperavi and amber wines from Rkatsiteli with strong longevity.
From New York City: Amber Georgia Wine Fair 2025
On November 8th, more than 30 winemakers from Georgia gathered in Brooklyn for a first-of-its-kind celebration: the Amber Georgia Wine Fair. Organized by the Natural Wine Association of Georgia, the National Wine Agency of Georgia, and New York’s Ruffian Wine Bar, the wine fair offered an immersive experience into one of Georgia’s most distinctive wine traditions.
Tamar Wines
Tamar Wines is led by Patrick Honnef. After numerous careers, Patrick decided to follow his passion for wine. In 2003, he made his way to Bordeaux, which led to 10 years of winemaking, viticulture, and management at Chateau d’Aiguilhe. With this experience, the challenge of Chateau Mukhrani (CHM) in Georgia and the fascination of contributing to the renaissance of Georgian wine culture made him decide to move to Georgia and to become the Technical Director and CEO of CHM. By 2023, Georgian Wines and Spirits became another jewel under his responsibility. Together with Manuchar Meskhidze, and Nika Natroshvili- the Chief viticulturist- Tamar strives to offer the joy of wine.
Pi
This symbol of balance and harmony is the philosophy behind Pi Winery and its founding family. In 2020, Teona Omarashvili teamed up with her uncle Levan, to officially brand Pi Wines after years of family centered winemaking. This wine pays tribute to the eternal- like the number π, and reflects a pursuit of perfection that never truly ends. With roots in ancient soil, each sip brings you closer to the elegance of nature’s own equation.
Danieli
Olaf Malver’s life has always been an eternal striving for wisdom, a yearning for more profound knowledge that can be carried over to the next generation, either by teaching or through exploring with others. Fortunately he has been able to pursue this quest with the advent of Danieli wines. This Danish born winemaker married in Georgia and with his wife and children expanded Danieli Winery.
Qvevri Wine Cellar
From the village of Velistsikhe in Kakheti, Ivane Nareklishvili set out to found his own winery. As a third-generation winemaker, Ivane spent 25 years gaining experience working for a variety of wine producers. After spending time studying in Italy- and becoming engrossed in different techniques- he came to understand the future of Georgian winemaking exists in the blend of traditional Kakhetian and contemporary winemaking knowledge. With a modern winemaker’s eye for quality control, and the steady hand of minimal intervention, Ivane honed his ability to finesse a natural ferment to reveal the best of native yeasts and traditional techniques without risking errant slips or spoilage. From this, Qvevri Wine Cellar was born in 2015.
Tedo
With a winemaking career that began in 1985, Tedo Gzirishvili is one of Georgia’s most respected practitioners of both traditional and modern viticulture. At his family winery, Tedo’s Marani, located in Sagarejo, Kakheti, he crafts wines from organically grown, local grape varieties cultivated with great care and respect for the land.
Simonica
Continuing a proud winemaking legacy, Nini Chkheidze represents the third generation of the Chkheidze family dedicated to preserving and evolving Georgian wine. Nini went on to strengthen her expertise by completing WSET Level 3 in Wines and later pursuing Viticulture and Oenology studies at the Agricultural University of Georgia. As the head of winemaking, she has truley taken her family’s wines to the next level.
Tilisma
Tilisma Winery is run by Ketevan Akolashvili and Christian Hubert, who transformed a piece of Ketevan’s family vineyard into something genuinely modern, yet deeply Georgian. From the outside, the winery feels like a family estate, but step into their qvevri cellar, and you’ll see the magic: old-school clay vessels, sitting quietly beneath the surface, gently fermenting the region’s iconic grapes.