Georgia celebrates National Wine Day
PM, cabinet members and their children pick grapes in Kakheti
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Georgia’s Prime Minister and other members of cabinet, together with their children, participated in grape harvesting in the country’s leading wine-producing region.
PM Irakli Garibashvili and his two sons, Vice PM and Energy Minister Kakha Kaladze with his son and other officials and their families visited the Kakheti region and picked grapes alongside local farmers as Georgia celebrated National Wine Day today.
"Since our team is in power more than four hectares of new vineyards have been created in our country,” said PM Garibashvili.
"This is because farmers are more motivated as the Government subsidises grapes. [Now] farmers can sell their harvest with a 100 percent profit.”
Garibashvili said farmers in Kakheti had received about 300 million GEL for selling grapes during the past three years.
Energy Minister Kakha Kaladze and his son pick grapes in Kakheti. Photo by the Energy Ministry's press service.
Each year on October 4 the country celebrates Georgian Wine Day. The country honours its national drink with various celebrations in different regions.
Farmers in Georgia’s Racha-Lechkumi region are immersing themselves in the grape picking bustle, as the harvest comes to an end in leading wine-producing region Kakheti.
30,477 tonnes of grapes generate 17.45m GEL for farmers
The 2015 grape harvest is in full swing in Georgia’s nine wine-producing villages where a total of 30,477 tonnes of grapes has been picked so far.
This year’s harvest in Georgia’s wine-producing Kakheti region has already generated 51,669,513 GEL, and the harvest is not over yet.
A record number of wine grapes have been processed in 24 hours in Georgia’s wine producing Kakheti region.
The volume of grapes processed on a daily basis in Georgia has reached 9,000 tonnes in the past 24 hours, which is the highest rate of harvest over the last 30 years in Georgia’s grape-producing Kakheti region.