Anapea Village, Kisi Pet Nat, Kakheti, Georgia 2024

In many ways, Georgia the original home of natural winemaking with a history going back 8,000 years. Furthermore, the trends of orange wine and amphora winemaking that are now in vogue started in Georgia. Khatia and Gocha started Anapea Village in 2013. A wife and husband team, they planted vineyards and built a winery in the east of Georgia to rehabilitate the traditions of Georgian grape growing and winemaking. From the start, they've farmed organically. Only indigenous varieties are planted in their vineyards. Harvest typically occurs in early September and is completed by hand. Once the grapes reach the winery, fermentation occurs on skins for red and white grapes in qvevri. The winery has 2 sets of qvevri, one for fermentation and one for aging. Both are buried below ground but at different levels. For fermentation, qvevri buried just below the earth's surface are used. The wines are bottled with minimal to no sulfur and are neither fined nor filtered.