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Our most off-track and unique itineraries are only for those looking to venture way off the tourist trail and discover small batch wines that you will never have tasted and likely never taste again.
All our wine explorer trips visit locations our regular tours do not, often heading to places that wine tourism has barely reached. It is not uncommon for some of our hosts to be hosting English speaking guests for the very first time.
Each trip is hosted by Tommo (tour company founder) as well as a local Georgian guide. You’ll get the local and expat perspective on life, travel and wine in Georgia. Each of these trips is entirely unique, has never been run before and never will be again. Like a rare vintage, explorer tours exist in ultimate finitude.
Inspiring and surprising cuisine, amazing hospitality and one-of-a-kind wine experiences all await you in the least touristy corners of the oldest wine producing country on Earth.
Join Tommo on one of our specialist tours. Places are very limited, with normally a maximum of 5 to 12 guests. We typically only run explorers tours once a month, or less. In addition, we have a few special one-off annual tours that we run every year.
The approximate itineraries / regions are listed below. On the whole, these are more like mystery tours, so we don’t reveal every detail in advance. We promise it will be an adventure. and there will be a lot of food and wine!
About This Tour:
Departs from Tbilisi. We wind our way through wineries of Imereti on the way to Racha region. The Racha wine festival is happening on Saturday 22nd July in Tsageri. We’ll spend that day tasting a huge range of local wines for the mountain valley. On the 21st & 23rd, we’ll visit wineries and historic / sightseeing location, as well as visit a “churri” maker (the west Georgian version of qvevri) at their workshop.
Spaces: 12
About This Tour:
Discover Georgia’s little known high altitude wine growing region, near Aspindza in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region (historically Meskheti region). The wines here are grown from 900m to 1,700m elevation, not just some of the highest in Georiga, but in the world. On terraces that were lost centuries ago and now rediscovered.
Explore specialist regional cuisine that is rarely found outside the area, such as apotkha khinkali.
Spaces: 12
About This Tour:
Attend a late season harvest – we don’t have locations long in advance, but most likely Racha (Ambrolauri) or Imereti, or possibly Kartli region. Help a family with their harvest and enjoy local harvest activities.
We’ll also attend the Terjola wine festival.
Spaces: 12
About This Tour:
We’ll be based in Kutaisi for this exploration of surrounding regions. We’ll coincide this trip with the “Amerimeri wine festival” which will happen either Dec 2nd or 9th. As well as visiting some very off-track wineries, we’ll also visit the abandoned sanatoriums of Tskaltubo.
See the itinerary for an approximate breakdown of the trip.
Spaces: 12
About This Tour:
Most families celebrate New Year’s Eve as their biggest event of the year. But Georgian Christmas also has a fair share of important historic traditions, some of which were far more significant in a time before the Soviet Union made NYE a secular replacement for Christmas.
This special version of Christmas recreates some of the historic and modern Georgian Christmas traditions a few weeks before the actual Orthodox Christmas (as families are too busy during the holiday season to host guests).
We’ll explore the wines of Akhmeta & Magraani appellations as well as having a Christmas style supra with a local family, featuring traditional holiday dishes and desserts.
Spaces: 12
About This Tour:
Visit 3 Microzones: Akhoebi, Tibaani, Kardenakhi.
Taste the Microzone specific wines, meet the winemakers (small batch production) and enjoy homemade cuisine.
Many tourists make it to Signagi, but very few explore the surrounding Microzones to the north and east.
Spaces: 12
About This Tour?
We specialize in small group, food & wine itineraries (with a good dose of history, sightseeing and culture thrown in). But we can provide anything from fully custom, multi day itineraries that will take to across of of Georgia, down to private walking tours in Tbilisi.
From personal two person honeymoon wine adventures, to 30+ guest wine country parties/festivals. We have wine, food and fun waiting for you!
Submit a custom quote request and we can build you an itinerary and get you a quote.