About us

The story of our winery begins from 1984, when my grandfather Alexander Wolski built a countryhouse in village Khashmi, and equiped it with wine cellar. At that time I (George Wolski) was just 3 years old.

Since then my grandfather and my father were making wines, and I was helping them from my childhood. They were making wines for just family consumption, but were using natural methods of winemaking. They were organic growers and were making wines 100% naturally without any additives, or filtration. Currently, I continue this tradition and make the wines already commercially with the same methods that were proven to be healthy and successful by my ancestors. That means that I also have organic vineyards, and do not use any additives, even sulfites during winemaking.

We are looking to have high quality wines, and compromise quantity for that. We do not irrigate our vineyards, do not use any fertilizers, and perform green harvest as well. For that reason, we have 3-4 times less crop in our vineyards than usual growers. After harvest, before crushing grapes, we sort them to crush only the best berries and remove not only Materials other than Grapes (MoG), but inferior quality grapes as well, that also decrease our yields. And finally, after fermentation completes, we do not press pomace, and take only free run wine, the rest is going to distillation of our fine grape whiskey, that we call Chacha in Georgian.

As our wines do not have any conservants, it's mandatory to store them in a proper conditions. Please store wines in dark, cool, relatively silent place. Wines are not fined or filtered and therefore appearance of sediment during storage is to be expected.

We sell our wines under two brand names: Chateau Khashmi and Andrias Gvino. Andria is my first son, whose picture is on the label. He also was 3 years old when he first helped us during harvest. Now he is 8 years old, he has not yet tasted his named wines, but distinguishes arromas quite well. I hope after many years, when he will taste his wines, he will be very proud of them :)