Pheasant's Tears Winery

Restaurant · Signagi

Pheasant's Tears Winery

Restaurant · Signagi

JW8C+C4H, Sighnaghi, Georgia

Highlights

Winery with qvevri wines, amazing Georgian feasts, and garden dining

JW8C+C4H, Sighnaghi, Georgia Get directions

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The chef, Gia Rokashvili, uses local ingredients and serves the food with local wines. Tony had boiled beets in wild plum sauce, freshly foraged mushrooms with chili pepper, mint, and tarragon; baby lamb stewed with cumin, cooked with wild rice; fresh tonis puri, bread made in a tandoor-like clay oven. He ate with Keti Bochorishvili, former Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, and Tamuna Gvaberidze, gallery owner.

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The Oldest Newest Wine Region in the World

"A hilltop Kakheti winery founded in 2007 by an American expat and a Georgian partner that was among the first to export traditionally made Georgian wines to the U.S.; it’s closely associated with exuberant supras—massive, toasting-filled feasts—and serves a parade of regional dishes (foraged mushrooms, khachapuri, rolled eggplant with walnut sauce, lamb chakapuli, shkmeruli). Its inky, plummy Saperavi is formidable and benefits from decanting." - Ray Isle

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Pusit Sompong

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The lunch we had at Pheasant’s Tears was delicious. The ingredients were fresh, the flavors well-balanced, and the dishes paired beautifully with their natural wines. A memorable culinary experience in a charming setting.

Yevgen Gusovskyy

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A wonderful winery visit in a beautiful town. Certainly one of the pioneers of the proper and natural winemaking in Georgia, John Wurdeman helped bring the 2007-10 vintages of several producers to the US where I first realized just how quickly Georgia moved from the Soviet style horror wines to proper respectful and unique wines that finally allow to show off the terroir. Yes, qvevri (the clay amphora) and natural winemaking were not an absolute must for that but, in today world, these are some of the most proper and honest ways to provide unique marketing and, yes, the methods are historic so why should I even have to be apologetic about them. If you are able to meet John and his family, you are quite likely in for a treat and may end up staying for dinner with good food and wine. Please make sure you grab a hotel afterwards, drunk driving is wrong anywhere but certainly even more dangerous on the windy Kakheti roads.

Vanessa Liu

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Easily topped as one of the best meals I’ve had in Georgia past 1 week. The flavour profile of the pork dish was rich but slightly too salty (especially when I reheated the leftover at home). Eggplant salad was absolutely perfect and hit the spot right. Very tasteful tannin amber wine made by the winery. Price is quite high compared to to most restaurants in Georgians but you get what you pay😉 I paid 103 lari for 1 appetiser, 1 main, 1 glass of wine, bread

Martin Nymann

Google

Givi provided us with great wine, the kitchen gave us great food, and again, Givi gave us great service. The absolutely most amazing place in Sighnaghi. ‘Worth the plane ride and car ride up to the mountains. We had the wine tasting as well, which was really amazing and a good insight into wine from both West, South and the eastern part of Georgia. And tbh, also everywhere in between. I simply don’t know how to recommend this place even more.

Sachin Jaiswal

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Amazing 😍!!!! While that would pretty much sum up the overall place and experience let me add on a few details just to give more context. The food is absolutely fantastic ( verified by a local dining with us that it's authentic or as close ) the portion sizes are family size and delicious to the last bite. I am not a wine expert but I absolutely loved the wines that were served (made in house) . Being mostly a family run business the service was warm and friendly. The only thing missing if I am being very very critical is a good view to the seating area, but that's just a want. In summary do not miss visiting this great restaurant and winery.

Soojung Choi Kim

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The food was way toooooo salty… felt like we were getting high blood pressure from eating the food…. And when we asked to pack the leftovers they charged us 3 gel for each container without saying anything in advance.. and when we asked about it they were almost mocking and laughing at us… so disappointed in their attitude and poor service…:( we don’t recommend here…

Hell No

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A little disappointed by this place. Food was good, wine was ok— nothing special. Very expensive for what it is. Staff were friendly and helpful.

hélènie poirier

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We wanted to have a good night, taste great Georgian wine and food and this is exactly what we had. We are bringing a bottle back to Montréal and will drink it thinking of this amazing place. You can really feel the chill and friendly vibes. A special thank you to our waitress and her dad whom was in the kitchen.