Wine in Napareuli, Kakheti

Twins Wine House ★ 4.4

Napareuli cellar run by twin brothers, working in buried qvevri. The site also holds a qvevri museum, a restaurant and guest rooms.

Twins Wine House Restaurant ★ 4.2

Restaurant at the Twins Wine House complex in Napareuli, serving Kakhetian pork barbecue, cheese and shoti bread with the estate's own qvevri wines.

The list: House list of dry, semi-sweet and qvevri wines from the Twins cellar, with chacha and brandy made on site.

Kakhetian Corner, Lopota Lake Resort ★ 4.0

Kakhetian dining room at the Lopota Lake Resort in Napareuli, one of five food and drink outlets on an estate that also runs the Chateau Buera winery.

The list: Pours from Chateau Buera, the organic winery run on the same estate.

Twins Wine House Masterclasses ★ 4.3

Classes run by the Twins winery at Napareuli, covering qvevri winemaking and chacha distilling as well as Georgian baking of khachapuri, khinkali and churchkhela.

Qvevri and Qvevri Wine Museum ★ 4.5

Museum at Twins Wine House in Napareuli, built around three glass-fronted 500 litre qvevri that show crushing, fermentation and racking across five exhibition rooms.

Twins Wine House Hotel ★ 4.2

Thirty room hotel at the Twins Wine House complex in Napareuli, with pool and sauna, and museum entry plus wine and chacha tasting included for guests.

Lopota Lake Resort & Spa ★ 4.1

Lakeside resort at Napareuli with 310 rooms across 16 buildings, five food and drink outlets, a spa and the Chateau Buera winery, which farms organic vineyards here.

Lopota Wine Tour and Cooking Masterclass ★ 4.0

Cellar tour, tasting and Georgian cooking class run at the Lopota resort in Napareuli, on the estate that also farms the Chateau Buera organic vineyards.

Chateau Buera ★ 4.2

An organic winery founded by Goga Maisuradze at Lopota in the Napareuli microzone, now run by his family, with certified bio vineyards, limited production and a sommelier-led tasting.

Why locals love it: It sits inside a large lake resort, so the winery reads as a hotel amenity from the road when it is a working organic estate in the Napareuli microzone.

Tip: Book the tasting rather than the restaurant table if the wine is the point; the two are sold separately at Lopota.

Lopota Jazz Club ★ 4.3

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.

Chateau Buera Restaurant, Lopota ★ 4.3

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.

Kakhetian Corner, Lopota ★ 4.1

Traditional Georgian cooking indoors and in the open air at Lopota, with culinary masterclasses attached, running to 23:00 through the season.

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.

Chateau Buera ★ 4.2

An organic winery at Lopota in the Napareuli microzone, founded by Goga Maisuradze and now run by his family, with certified bio vineyards and limited production.

Tip: The resort does not name the certifying body on its pages, so ask at the tasting which certificate the vineyards hold.

Twins Wine House ★ 4.3

Fifteen hectares of vineyard at Napareuli, of which the twins farm three as bio and organic land, feeding the Firuzi label that sits apart from the main qvevri range.

Tip: Grapes for the rest of the range are bought in from local growers, so the bio parcels apply to Firuzi rather than to every bottle.

Firuzi by Twins Wine House ★ 4.2

The bio and organic label at Twins Wine House, named for the family ancestor Firuz Gamtkistulashvili, made to European standards and placed in the natural wine category by the producer.

Tip: It is the one label at Twins made outside the qvevri programme, so taste it against the house amber wines rather than in place of them.