Wine Festival

Today, on October 12, 2019, the Wine Festival was held for the third time, in Gurjaani, in Akhtala Park. The event aim is to facilitate wine tourism, introduce wine culture and Georgian traditions to foreign as well as to the Georgian public. At the festival, wines made by farmers in qvevri (clay jar), more than 150 wines of various types, colours and age, chacha and other spirits, produced by great and small wineries, were exhibited together with traditional meals. 

The National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia Sakpatenti participated in the event to raise awareness on appellations of origin (AOs) of wine among entrepreneurs and the general public. Sakpatenti presented an information stand, exhibiting the goods protected by appellations of origin, produced in the Kakheti region. Sakpatenti staff members delivered consultations for producers participating in the festival and handed over information booklets and flyers on appellations of origin.

At present 28 appellations of origin, including 20 AOs of wines, are protected in Georgia and their majority are produced in Kakheti region.

An appellation of origin is a modern or historical name of a geographical place, region or, in exceptional cases, a name of a country, used to designate the goods the specific (and not definite) quality and features of which are essentially or exclusively due to the particular geographical environment and human factors.  Along with this, the entire cycle linked with the production of these goods shall take place within this geographical area.