Georgian female winemakers at Museum of Recipes

The evening of Georgian female winemakers was held at Museum of Recipes. It was organized and hosted by the CEO of the museum, Maiko Kavtaradze. The event aimed at helping female winemakers and entrepreneurs, supporting and popularizing them. The host discussed, in particular, the history of Georgian female winemaking that has started not very long ago, despite Georgia being the first country to produce wine.

After, followed the time for wine tasting. Four female winemaker’s bottled wines were presented at the event, and four different stories behind this undertakings were told. Among those were wines produced by Maia Parkaia and Khatuna Sadzaglishvili, as well as Tamar Dighmelashvili who is the only female winemaker in Kakheti producing French wine Chardonnay. She inherited vineyards from her father and gained necessary skills partly from the family traditions and partly in the Sommelier Association.

Guests also tasted wine from 42 years old Tinatin Jakhua, founder of Tinatin LLC who got her interest in winemaking after working at wine cellar – she got eager to learn more about winemaking and viticulture and two years later in 2019 produced 1000 bottles.

Among guests were start-uppers, winemakers, wine-lovers and tourists. “I found this event very informative and interesting. By such evenings, Georgian wine and specifically female winemaker’s production gets more and more popularized, and this is very important. It’s great that such space like the museum of recipes exists and would be very nice if such events were held more often.

As noted by Kavtaradze, she and her company support female start-uppers and businesswomen. Everything in the museum, according to the host, is made by women starting from decorations, ending indoors. She assures visitors that Museum of Recipes in Tbilisi is the first one in the world. It’s noteworthy that space was opened in April 2019 and often hosts cooking master-classes and other events. Museum, located on Ingorokva Street 22, is home to folk recipes as well as authors’ ones and aims to preserve them for future generations, in order for them to have a better idea about the history behind Georgian dishes/drinks than people of our times.