Grape harvest 2020: 133,000 tonnes of grape processed
About 80 wine companies are involved in grape processing, which on average process about 13,000 tonnes of grapes per day. Photo: Wine Agency.
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The grape harvest is continuing actively in Georgia’s eastern wine region of Kakheti, where as of today, 133,000 tonnes of grape have already been processed.
Grape growers have generated over 131 million GEL in income so far from this year’s harvest, the Georgian National Wine Agency announced.
About 80 wine companies are involved in grape processing, which on average process about 13,000 tonnes of grapes per day.
Local growers have processed the following grape varieties:
- Rkatsiteli - 100,000 tonnes
- Saperavi – 27,000 tonnes
- Kakhuri Mtsvane – 2,000 tonnes
To date most grapes were processed in Kakheti’s Gurjaani municipality – 44,000 tonnes.
This was followed by:
- Kvareli – 29,000 tonnes
- Telavi – 20,000 tonnes
- Sighnaghi – 18,000 tonnes
- Lagodekhi – 9,700 tonnes
- Dedoplistskaro – 5,600 tonnes
- Akhmeta – 5,600 tonnes
- Sagarejo – 1,500 tonnes
To note, the government of Georgia is subsidising the 2020 grape harvest, especially the grape varieties of Rkatsiteli and Kakhuri Mtsvane in order to support farmers completely sell their produce. The price of Rkatsiteli and Kakhuri Mtsvane will not be less than 80 tetri.
About 40,000 tonnes of grapes of various varieties have been processed in Georgia’s eastern winemaking region of Kakheti as of September 14, which is 33 per cent more year-on-year.
About 11,000 tonnes of grapes of various varieties have been processed in the Kakheti region, east Georgia, as of September 8.
The grape harvest season is picking up steam in the Georgian winemaking region of Kakheti, where 200 tonnes of grapes have already been processed as of August 26, announces the Georgian National Wine Agency.
The government of Georgia will subsidise the 2020 grape harvest, especially grape varieties of Rkatsiteli and Kakhuri Mtsvane in order to support farmers completely sell their produce, announces Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Gakharia.
Georgian Agriculture Minister Levan Davitashvili and Foreign Minister Davit Zalkaliani have hosted foreign diplomats at a grape harvest in Tsinandali, in Georgia’s eastern winemaking Kakheti province.
Four individuals have been detained for stealing half a tonne of Saperavi grapes from vineyards in Kvareli municipality, Kakheti region, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
232,000 tonnes of grapes have been processed in the Kakheti region as of October 2, but the process still continues until mid-October.
Farmers in Georgia’s Racha-Lechkumi region have begun the grape picking bustle, while the grape harvest is coming to an end in the leading wine-producing region of Georgia, Kakheti.
About 600 tonnes of Aleksandrouli and Mujuretuli grape varieties have been picked in western Georgian region of Racha as of October 12, where the harvest started last week, announces the Georgian National Wine Agency.
The grape harvest has ended in Georgia and the Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia says it was a record high harvest in the past 30 years. Gakharia said that 277,000 tonnes of grapes were processed in the Kakheti region while about 1,400 tonnes were processed in the Racha-Lechkhumi region of Georgia.
The Georgian government will subsidise the 2021 grape harvest due to an excess grape yield this season and the post-pandemic situation in order to financially support farmers, announced Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili earlier today. Garibashvili stated that the price of one kilo of the Rkatsiteli wine variety will not be less than 90 tetri, noting that ‘companies will receive an additional 35 tetri from the state.’