If you want to start a spirited debate at your next holiday meal, ask your guests which country invented wine. France, Italy, or Greece might come to mind. But most scholars say Georgia - the small ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Freedman covers wine, spirits, food, and travel. This article is more than 3 years old. After a delayed flight out of New ...

If you asked most people where they think the birthplace of wine is, they'd probably get it wrong. The small former Soviet Republic of Georgia holds that distinction. At one time, the country ...

Georgia is located on the eastern shores of the Black Sea, where Europe meets the Middle East and Asia. A self-contained and mountainous country, it is surrounded by Russia to the north, Turkey and ...

Editor's note: This story was reported in the summer of 2024. Recently, Tbilisi has marked by protests against the government, and harsh crackdowns on activists—the history of its wine is just one ...

This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. The people of Georgia might well be the first folks who ever got properly wine-drunk. Straddling the ...

The Georgian wine industry, gutted by a Russian embargo 15 years ago, is thriving once again. But success is resting on a shaky foundation. While exports reached record levels in 2021, roughly 55 ...

When you tell people you’re going to Georgia, they naturally assume you mean the state. When you clarify that you’re talking ...

The FINANCIAL — According to the Department of Statistics for Georgia, the total amount of Georgian wine export in 2007 was 29,197,40 (1 000 USD). When Russia placed an embargo on Georgian wine in ...

The FINANCIAL — During the first ten months of 2014 China imported 301 million litres of wine, worth USD 1.2 billion. The volume is six times more than the total export of Georgian wine during the ...