Wines of Georgia: A Journey Through Europe’s Most Ancient Wine Culture

Learn about Georgian wine from James Beard Award recipient and natural wine’s top authority and longstanding champion, Alice Feiring.

With a history that goes back 8,000 years, the country of Georgia can trace its tradition of winemaking back to the origin of wine. In this class, Alice Feiring will explore the magnificent history of this tradition and how it survived war, Stalinism and larger cultural shifts. Meet cultural icons including Lamara (featured in Feiring’s To Fall in Love, Drink This: A Wine Writer’s Memoir), the keeper of Georgia’s herbal medicine wisdom, and discover their historic way of winemaking, how the explosion of natural winemaking there influenced others around the globe, what the wines taste like and what you should look for when picking up a bottle.

Registration for the lecture is $25 and includes a suggested wine list. Thanks to our co-presenters, Kitchen Arts and Letters, for $35 we can offer registration plus a copy of Alice Feiring’s To Fall in Love, Drink This: A Wine Writer’s Memoir. Please note: books can only be shipped domestically. Please email email Shannon Vail if your shipping address is different than your billing address.

This class will take place live online with an opportunity to interact with the instructor and be recorded for later viewing by patrons.