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.
Address: Lopota, Napareuli 2200, Kakheti, Georgia
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.
A room designed around live music by the architect Davit Khoiava, with signature cocktails and a booked programme of quartets, tribute shows and one night of live scoring for a silent film.
Tip: It opens only on programmed nights, so check the listings before you plan an evening around it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The bar inside the Schuchmann complex at Kisiskhevi, which combines a hotel, restaurant, wine bar and wine spa on one site above the vineyards.
Wine focus: Schuchmann and Vinoterra ranges
Tip: Guests staying on site can move between the restaurant, the bar and the cigar room without leaving the chateau, which matters when there is no taxi rank.
A room designed around live music by the architect Davit Khoiava, with signature cocktails and a booked programme of quartets, tribute shows and one night of live scoring for a silent film.
Tip: It opens only on programmed nights, so check the listings before you plan an evening around it.