The Chavchavadze estate at Tsinandali, with a historic cellar, a park and a hotel. Tastings and cellar tours run daily from the estate visitor programme.
Tip: The estate pairs a wine tour with the Chavchavadze house museum, so allow time for both rather than the cellar alone.
Family winery founded in 1997 beside the Chavchavadze park at Tsinandali, taking fruit from the Mukuzani, Napareuli, Kindzmarauli and Tsinandali zones.
Tasting at the Chavchavadze estate in Tsinandali: five set flights of Tsinandali Estate wines served with Georgian dishes, arranged in advance through the estate.
Guided tasting at Shumi in Tsinandali, taken with a cellar tour. The same grounds hold the winery's wine museum and a living collection of over 900 vine varieties.
Wine bar inside the Tsinandali Estate complex, pouring bottles from the estate's own cellar with plates from the kitchen, daily from 13:00 to 21:00.
The list: By-the-glass pours drawn from the Tsinandali Cellar range, served with dishes from the estate kitchen.
Kakhetian restaurant at Tsinandali Estate under chef Irakli Todadze, cooking from seasonal local produce and pairing dishes with the estate's cellar selections.
The list: Signature dishes matched to historic Tsinandali Estate bottlings from the estate cellar.
Hands-on sessions at Shumi in Tsinandali covering the grape harvest, bread baking and the making of churchkhela, khachapuri and khinkali, taken with the winery tour.
The Chavchavadze family house at Tsinandali, a museum since 1947, shown with the 1830s cellar where Alexander Chavchavadze put Georgian wine into European barrels.
Wine museum on the Shumi estate at Tsinandali, shown together with the winery's living vine collection of more than 900 varieties gathered from across Georgia.
A 124 room hotel on the Chavchavadze estate at Tsinandali, sharing its grounds with the historic cellar, the house museum, a wine bar and the estate restaurants.
Visit to the underground cellar library at Tsinandali, which holds over 16,500 bottles, among them the estate's 1839 Saperavi, bottled in 1841, and 19th century French wines.
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.
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.