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Kakheti Wine Tour (Telavi Wine Tour): Our most in-depth, all-artisan 1-day food & wine tour. Visit Georgia’s most popular wine region, Kakheti, for a 100% artisan experience: Mini cooking class with mother, enjoy elevated home-cooked Georgian cuisine and taste a wide variety of small-batch, hand-crafted bio qvevri wines – taste in-person with the winemakers.
Premium authentic, small group, indulgently all-inclusive lunch & dinner with plenty of wine!
This tour is also bookable on-demand or as a private tour / out-of-season all year round.
Our premium tours are priced higher than budget or mid-range competitors due to our dedication to exclusivity, quality, authenticity, and fair compensation to guides and small family winemakers.
Our philosophy on price is: What is better value for money, a unique boutique dinner with premium wine, or eating a supermarket sandwich on a park bench with a nice view? Either experience could get a 5 star review, if the quality meets the price tag and exceeds your personal expectations.
Although we understand our prices may not suit everyone, we guarantee premium experiences surpassing cheaper alternatives, to which our past guests overwhelmingly give 5 star reviews and agree are genuinely worth the price tag. Learn why, below.
Eat This! Tours (Premium) | Typical Budget Tours |
Small groups (max 7, on scheduled tours). | Larger groups (15 to 30). |
All-Inclusive, lunch and dinner. | Lunch only, at extra charge (PAYG). |
Meet the winemaker (at least one per day on every trip). And experienced wine hosts. Take your time exploring wines. | Served wine by junior staff at the cellar door. Get in and get out. |
Taste many small-batch artisan wines. All wine tasting (large pours) included during tour hours. | Taste a few mass-produced wines. Additional wine at extra charge. |
Variety of family micro-producers / artisans and high-class vineyards and chateaus. | Visit wine factories (1 million+ bottle production) with mass-market wines. |
Exclusive family meals with a winemaker at their home winery. | Budget restaurant with tourist menu, at extra charge. |
Elevated home-made cuisine, unique dishes and classics. | Typical standard dishes you will find in every restaurant around Georgia. |
Fair pay to good people. We pay our staff and winemakers above average rates for top service. Quality and sustainability over profit. | Focus on cheap places, lowest price and quality, places that offer kickbacks (commissions) to bring people. |
You never leave hungry or sober (optional), you will discover true Georgian hospitality right at the source. | If you have time during the trip you can pay extra for enough food and wine. |
Specialist, immersive food and wine focus with a little sightseeing. Indulge, connect, never want to go home. | Sightseeing focus with some wine and food stops. See, quick taste, go home. |
Our tours are priced with the exact cost (with fair pay to vendors) plus a 5% to 25% margin (depending on tour type and the number of guests) to pay our admin staff and be in profit (otherwise the business would close).
The above summary relates to scheduled tours. For private tour bookings, this itinerary can run on any date year-round, alternative start time, pickup location (if not from a location listed below as a possible pickup), under 18s (with guardian), groups larger than 7 etc. Select private or custom tour below. Prices may vary.
The initial listed price is based on 1 adult traveling in a group of 7 people on a scheduled tour. Full pricing info is below.
Important: Wine tasting servings are big. No budget sip-and-go tastings with our company. Monitor your own drinking and enjoy a fun wine day!
This trip was a little on the expensive side when I looked up options but it was so so worth it! The driver had very good English and gave us great insight into the region. One of the best tours I’ve ever been on! See original review on TripAdvisor.
From Tbilisi to Kakheti (Telavi) and back.
8:30am to 9pm (12.5 Hours). Every Tue / Thu / Sat (Apr to Aug). Every Thu (Nov to Mar). Note in Sept/Oct this tour is replaced by our Telavi harvest tour.
Or book a private version of this tour any day or time of year (a surcharge may apply in some cases)
Yes, from all central Tbilisi accommodation. Pickup from Telavi is normally possible, please ask. If your accommodation is quite a distance outside Telavi we can arrange a taxi to take you to the group in Telavi.
Alternative starting point? Book a private tour.
If you need customizations or a different date when this tour is not scheduled to run, book a private or custom tour instead of using the booking calendar.
Taste Georgia’s 8,000 Year Wine History Surrounded By Vines & Mountains In The Kakheti Wine Region.
The pricing listed in the booking form is the maximum price you will pay. As the tour fills up, we can offer additional discounts. Even if you book solo, if enough other people join the group, you will pay less. We email you the final price a day or 2 before your trip commences.
2 Adults | 3 to 4 Adults | 5 to 6 Adults | 7 Adults |
475 GEL pp | 450 GEL pp | 425 GEL pp | 400 GEL pp |
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If traveling with children under 18, you must book a private tour.
Learn about the qvevri (clay amphorae) right where they are made, at a family home workshop. Taste his wines and a special aged “chacha” (local spirit).
Visit the monastery with the longest continuous wine production in Georgia, since 1011 AD. Backdropped by the Caucasus mountains in a very scenic spot. Note: The cellar is sadly not open to guests, but the location and history makes this an interesting and important stop.
Exact arrival time depends on how much fun you were having at the last winery!
Mainly no. The only reason for major changes to the tour based on weather would be during winter if the mountain pass is blocked/dangerous due to snow or ice. In which case the tour can still operate but the driver would have to take the longer route, which will add ~2 hours of driving to the route. Normally in this case though we would suggest an alternative itinerary with some different stops, instead of a longer drive.
The only currency accepted by vendors for buying wine/gifts etc. to take home, is the national currency GEL. You can get this from any ATM and your driver will be happy to stop at one.
Purchase of our tours is normally in GEL based on the current exchange rate for the USD pricing of the tours. We’ll advise you of the exchange rate by email shortly before the tour date.
The initial standard price listed on our tour webpages is based on 1 adult traveling in a group of 2 to 4 people on a scheduled tour. Groups of 5 or more adults receive discounts. If you booked at full price and your tour ends up with 5 or more people after you booked, we will refund you any owed savings. This is done on the morning of the tour to ensure we know the exact number of people who actually took the tour, and can account for last minute sign ups and no-shows when calculating the final price.
The final discount will vary depending on the exact number of guests in the vehicle. We always honor discounts and will normally contact you about the expected final price the day before your tour, if it has changed since you initial booking.
Prices vary for private and custom tours (we’ll give you an exact quote based on what you want to book) as well as any extras you may book in addition to the scheduled tours.
The price you pay is the exact price it costs us to run the service (paying guides and vendors for what they provide etc.) plus a margin of 10% to 30% to cover marketing costs, office staff, and so we run at a profit (otherwise we’ll go out of business!). The margin depends on the amount of people, and type of tour. We actually subsidize tours with only 2 people on, out of our margin, to keep our pricing competitive, and because we’d rather have our guides out and getting paid, than get greedy and penalize small groups.
We always try to price transparently and as fairly as possible and to pay guides and vendors above average in order to retain the best people.
Information on cancellation and refund policy is here: https://eatthistours.com/terms-conditions-of-service/
On-demand daily, year-round. 19th-century German architecture and wine cellars with Georgian 8000-year wine traditions: feast with the winemakers. 1.85 Million-year-old archeology of Homo Erectus. Incredible valleys, mountains, and canyons.
4 Days per week (May to Oct). Every Sun (Nov to Mar) and on-demand daily, year-round. Most diverse wine trip. 6-course pairing menu lunch. Family dinner. Visit the mountain village of Signagi with stunning views of the Caucasus mountains. Visit 3 wineries, taste 11+ wines across 2+ wine appellations (PDO).