Iago, Chinuri Amber, 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER Coffee family

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creating a complex multi-age blend

distinctly Southern French take on the white blend

northern Loire Valley outpost

this bottle should be approaching or entering its drinking peak

Iago, Chinuri Amber, 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER Coffee familyAmber wine from the man who helped revive Georgia's ancient qvevri tradition. Iago Bitarishvili works with a single indigenous grape, Chinuri, on his small estate in Chardakhi in the Kartli region, and in 2005 became the first certified organic vineyard in the country. This is the skin contact version: the grapes ferment and age for roughly six months on their skins in qvevri, the egg shaped clay vessels buried underground, which gives the wine its