Participation of Children from Dzegvi Rehabilitation Center in Sakpatenti Vintage will Become Traditional

The vintage took place in the vineyard planted on the territory of Sakpatenti head office in Mtskheta. Mr. Soso Giorgadze, Chairman of Sakpatenti, actively participated in the grape picking process, together with the staff members. Mr. David Nozadze, State Trustee in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti Region, Mr. Dimitri Zurabishvili, Mayor of Mtskheta Municipality, and Mr. Dimitri Khundadze, Member of the Parliamentary Majority, also took part in the vine festival. In addition, Sakpatenti guests from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) –trainers of the Academy and international experts – engaged actively in the vintage.

At the vintage event, the children from the Dzegvi Rehabilitation Center functioning at St. Giorgi Mtatsmindeli Monastery and their parents, together with Ms. Nana Gogochuri, Head of the Center, visited Sakpatenti. The Chairman of Sakpatenti introduced to the beneficiaries the purpose of intellectual property with amusing examples and stories about inventions and designs and talked about the importance of the field. During grape picking, Mr. Soso Giorgadze told the children about the geographical places where vine grows exceptionally well and grapes acquire specific taste properties and quality. He also focused attention on other unique Georgian products, which are marked as geographical indications and appellations of origin and represent a special value for the economic, social and cultural development of our country. The children from the Dzegvi Rehabilitation Center, together with other participants of the vintage, directly participated in the process of pressing grapes and made churchkhelas with their own hands. The beneficiaries of the Center visited the exhibition area of the organization and received souvenirs, including children’s fairy tales about intellectual property subject-matters printed in Sakpatenti polygraphy, comics and cognitive educational materials prepared within the project “Creativity and Intellectual Property in Georgian Schools”. 

During the conversation with the children of the Center, Mr. Soso Giorgadze noted that their participation in Sakpatenti vintage will become a tradition, which will help the youth to learn more about intellectual property, deepen their knowledge in this direction, so that in future they can get acquainted with the basics of this field and, optionally, acquire professional skills. 

At Sakpatent, care and cultivation of the vineyard and grape harvesting have already become traditional. The vintage is the final stage of work activity for  wine-growers, Sakpatenti staff members harvested grapes and also successfully celebrated the vintage event, together with their guests. The guests and the hosts, holding bunches of grapes, wished each other a good harvest and tasted the ripe, sweet fruit.

Rkatsiteli, Khikhvi, Kisi, Shavkapito and other 29 varieties of grapes grow in Sakpatenti vineyard.