Grape harvest 2017: Farmers in Kakheti generate 32.2m GEL
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Grape growers in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region are continuing to reap the benefits of a bumper harvest.
So far this season farmers have earned 32.2 million GEL by selling about 29,700 tonnes of grapes, announced the Georgian National Wine Agency.
Local growers have processed the following grape varieties:
- Saperavi – 14,800 tonnes
- Rkatsiteli - 12,000 tonnes
- Kakhuri Mtsvane – 1,200 tonnes
To date most grapes were processed in Kakheti’s Kvareli municipality – 11,200 tonnes.
Followed by:
- Sighnaghi – 6,000 tonnes
- Gurjaani – 4,500 tonnes
- Telavi – 3,800 tonnes
- Dedoplistskaro – 2,100 tonnes
- Lagodekhi – 866 tonnes
- Akhmeta – 820 tonnes
- Sagarejo – 396 tonnes
In Kakheti 157 wine producing companies were registered at a special grape harvest coordination centre, of which 79 companies are involved in grape processing process, said the Georgian National Wine Agency.
Georgia’s National Wine Agency says that 18.6 thousand tons of grapes have already been processed in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region.
As summer draws to an end Georgia’s grape harvest season is just beginning with experts estimating 150,000 tonnes of grapes this year will be picked.
Georgia is getting ready for the major harvest season during which more than a hundred thousand tonnes of grapes will be picked, packed and sold locally or exported.
The Government of Georgia is supporting the wine sector ahead of the major harvest season during which more than a hundred thousand tonnes of grapes will be picked, packed and sold locally or exported.
The grape harvest is continuing actively in Georgia’s eastern wine region of Kakheti, where as of today, 85,000 tonnes of grape has already been processed.
The grape harvest is almost over in Georgia's main wine growing region Kakheti but the action continues in the northwestern Racha-Lechkhumi region, where a small amount of very unique grapes are grown.
"Since independence we have not sold so many wines in terms of quantity as well as in terms of amount of money,” said Georgia’s Agriculture Minister Levan Davitashvili who today summarised the grape harvest of 2017.