Kakhetian Corner, Lopota ★ 4.1

Rooftop Bar, Lopota ★ 3.9

The bar in building 16 at Lopota, set up for unhurried evenings with billiards, board games, warm gluhwein and desserts rather than a formal wine list.

Twins Wine House Evening Table ★ 4.3

The Napareuli restaurant of a qvevri cellar with rooms on site, seating 300 inside and 150 outdoors, with Kakhetian and Imeretian cooking and the full house list.

Wine focus: Red, white, rose, dry, semi-sweet, branded and organic, plus chacha and brandy

Tip: Guest rooms sit on the same site, which is what makes a long evening here workable without a drive back to Telavi.

Schuchmann Cigar Bar ★ 4.0

A small room in the Schuchmann chateau complex fitted out with clay pots and a buried wine library, with music and a cigar list, kept for after dinner.

Tip: It is inside the hotel complex at Kisiskhevi, so it works as a nightcap for guests rather than as a destination in itself.

Rooftop Bar, Lopota ★ 3.9

The bar in building 16 at Lopota, set up for unhurried evenings with billiards, board games, warm gluhwein and desserts rather than a formal wine list.

Pheasant's Tears, Sighnaghi ★ 4.7

The Sighnaghi room of a cellar that ferments and ages everything in qvevri, with maceration running from three weeks to six months and no oak anywhere in the range.

Wine focus: Qvevri wines from the estate's own cellar

Tip: The kitchen stops an hour before the room does, so order food by 22:00 and keep the last hour for the glasses.

Khareba Restaurant, Kvareli Wine Cave ★ 4.2

The restaurant beside the tunnel entrance at Kvareli, open two hours later than the cave itself, in a park with a water mill, a bakery and a collection of old pitchers.

Wine focus: Winery Khareba range, tasting up to 50 wines

Tip: The cave shuts at 20:00 and the restaurant at 22:00, so do the tunnel first and let dinner run on afterwards.

Twins Wine House Evening Table ★ 4.3

The Napareuli restaurant of a qvevri cellar with rooms on site, seating 300 inside and 150 outdoors, with Kakhetian and Imeretian cooking and the full house list.

Wine focus: Red, white, rose, dry, semi-sweet, branded and organic, plus chacha and brandy

Tip: Guest rooms sit on the same site, which is what makes a long evening here workable without a drive back to Telavi.

Gaumarjos Wine Bar, Tsinandali Estate ★ 4.2

The estate's wine bar, where the Tsinandali Cellar range is poured by the glass alongside small plates, open daily from early afternoon until nine in the evening.

Wine focus: Tsinandali Cellar wines by the glass

Tip: It shuts at 21:00 while Natella next door runs to 23:00, so start here and move rather than the other way round.