Iago Khikhvi 2024

Iago Khikhvi 2024
Georgia.

This wine is both deliberate and accidental. It follows the deliberate process and selection – not to mention craft – of Iago Bitarishvili, which is one of the best starts in life that a wine can have. But then it’s accidental because Iago thought that he was working with the grape variety chinuri, but it turned out that the grapes were the khikhvi variety. The result is the same. The wine is a revelation.

There’s an expansiveness to this wine. It balloons and it spreads. It’s one of those wines that feels controlled and flamboyant at once. It tastes of stonefruit and salt and earth, the fruit adding volume and the savouriness adding character. It’s all bone and flesh and billow and linger, the latter helped by an embrace of texture. It’s both a curio and more than a curio. 95 points.

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Excuse the bottle image. I don’t have a bottle image of the wine itself.
Short article on Iago Bitarishvili here.
Recent rviews of Iago’s wines here. Back catalogue of Iago’s wine reviews (subscriber) here.
Print of Iago Bitarishvili for sale here.