Vine and Wine Library opens in Tbilisi

Georgia is very famous by its ancient and unique history of viticulture and wine-making.

To gather and reveal all material describing Georgia’s divers wine history, Vine and Wine Library opened in the Georgia's National Library in Tbilisi, yesterday.

Interior of the Vine and Wine Library. Photo by National Library of Georgia.

The Library provides enormous documentary source on viticulture and all about wine-making in Georgia.

Moreover, the Vine and Wine Library has a modern reading hall, where books in Georgian, English, French, German and Spanish are available.

Courtyard of the Vine and Wine Library. Photo by National Library of Georgia.

The Library also contains unique archive of guidebooks about ampelography [botany that studies the cultivation of grapes], climate and soil.

Meanwhile, here is electronic encyclopedia about Georgian winemakers, as well as archive of magazines and newspapers on Georgian wine are provided at the Library.

Georgia is one of the oldest wine regions in the world. The fertile valleys of the South Caucasus, which Georgia straddles, are believed by many archaeologists to be the source of the world's first cultivated grapevines and Neolithic wine production over 8,000 years ago.

The traditional Georgian style of wine-making using qvevri clay jars was listed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list.