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.
Tip: Guest rooms sit on the same site, which is what makes a long evening here workable without a drive back to Telavi.
Address: Napareuli, Telavi 2211, Kakheti, Georgia
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 winery restaurant at Lopota, opening only in the afternoon and running to 23:00, with modern Georgian cooking matched to Chateau Buera's own organic bottlings.
Wine focus: Chateau Buera organic wines
Tip: Terraces look over the vineyards and the Caucasus wall, so ask for outside in summer and indoors once the evenings turn.
Traditional Georgian cooking indoors and in the open air at Lopota, with culinary masterclasses attached, running to 23:00 through the season.
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.
Kakhetian cooking on the estate, seasonal and local, with dishes paired against historical Tsinandali Estate wine selections. It runs to 23:00, which is late for this part of the valley.
The winery restaurant at Lopota, opening only in the afternoon and running to 23:00, with modern Georgian cooking matched to Chateau Buera's own organic bottlings.
Wine focus: Chateau Buera organic wines
Tip: Terraces look over the vineyards and the Caucasus wall, so ask for outside in summer and indoors once the evenings turn.
Traditional Georgian cooking indoors and in the open air at Lopota, with culinary masterclasses attached, running to 23:00 through the season.