Tsinandali wine

Tsinandali (Georgian: ტვიშიწინანდალი t’vishits’inandali) white wine comes from Georgia.

It is made from Rkatsiteli and Mtsvane grapes and comes from the Telavi and Kvareli area of Kakheti.

Tsinandali is fermented at cool temperatures and matured for two to three years to bring out the complexity.

Production was small scale at first but became increasingly large-scale and standardized until the Soviet era, which placed emphasis on quantity rather than quality and differentiated the industry into three parts, growers, fermenters and bottlers.

Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, the industry has been vertically integrated into smaller scale but full-cycle production.