GASTRO EVENING: “Cheese + Wine: Aging Together”

GASTRO EVENING: “Cheese + Wine: Aging Together”

Smells like maturity — an evening where the cheese speaks and the wine agrees.

This is a truly unique experience: a vertical tasting of artisanal cheeses and wines, side by side, vintage by vintage. Aging flatters many cheeses and wines — and we invite you to see it for yourself.

Creating a tasting of monobrand wines across different vintages is already a rarity in Georgia — a small country, with strong character, tourist buzz, and fast-drinking habits. Pairing it with a matching line-up of cheeses? That’s almost unheard of.

This one-of-a-kind tasting features only handcrafted products from small producers:

Cheeses made using French techniques by Irina Pliner

The finest wines from boutique wineries in eastern and western Georgia

All accompanied by handmade bread and confitures from Evgenia Popova

Tasting highlights include:

Blanc — soft cheese with a delicate white rind
& smoked pepper confiture

• Otskhanuri Sapere red dry wine by Gia Chubinidze (Nanua, Terjola, Imereti):

  young cheese / 2023 vintage
• semi-aged cheese / 2018 vintage
• aged cheese / 2017 vintage
• Ash-coated Bûche cheese (fruit wood)

2. & tomato-basil confiture

• Saperavi wines by Giorgi Solomnishvili (Telavi, Kakheti), Vazha Uzunashvili (Mukuzani, Kakheti), Dmitry Bantle (Dzegvi, Kartli):

  young cheese / “1984” – Saperavi-2018, G. Solomnishvili
• semi-aged / Saperavi-2017, V. Uzunashvili
• aged / Mukuzani’s Saperavi-2020, D. Bantle

Bonus pairing: aged cheese with a mystery bottle from the private collection of Kultura’s management.

Spots are limited.
If you’ve aged well — act accordingly.

Hosted by: Vadim Skardana, lead expert of “Georgia with a Degree” media project and author of “Georgian Winemaking: The Renaissance.”