The Oldest Newest Wine Region in the World

"Housed in a residential apartment in Tbilisi, this intimate restaurant grew out of the owner’s rooftop winemaking experiments and retains a familial, hands-on atmosphere: the husband (a former doctor) and his wife (still practicing medicine) converted their intended family home into a dining room where dozens of qvevri are buried on a raised sand-and-pebble terrace and their young son even started making and selling wine. Meals run late into the night and feature simple, delicious Georgian dishes—qartuli salata, pkhali, and garlicky marinated cherries among them—served alongside the terrace’s traditionally made, qvevri-aged wines that feel rooted in the country’s millennia-old vinicultural tradition." - Ray Isle