Casreli is a small wine farm from Kakheti in eastern Georgia. Casreli is a project by five doctor friends. It reads like an exciting boys' adventure story - they know each other from studying medicine in Tbilisi. In 2014 they started making wine together. In Kakheti that's a hobby practiced by thousands, but the men of Casreli were more serious about it. They started investing. A year later they planted their own vineyard, and a year after that they won gold and silver medals with their wines at the International Qvevri Wine Competition.
The five doctors behind Casreli are Gregory Khurtsidze, George Dzagnidze, Alexi Baidoshvili, Vazha Kasrelishvili and Mikheil Dolidze. It's especially the latter who is the driving force - he can't wait to become a full-time winemaker, which means a lot of reading and a lot of learning from other winemakers, but also a new cellar. That has since been built, so that production of just a few thousand bottles a year can be scaled up in the future.
Casreli currently has eight hectares of vineyards near the village of Vachnadziani, right in the middle of the 'wine province' of Kakheti. These have been planted with typically Georgian varieties: Kisi, Rkatsiteli, Khikhvi, Mtsvivani Kakhuri and Tetri Chitistvala. Mtsvivani Kakhuri is rare, Tetri Chitistvala is obscure - as far as we know, Casreli is the only one pressing a wine from it.
The men of Casreli make natural wines according to the traditional Georgian method. They farm organically in the vineyard. All wines ferment and age in qvevri, and go into the bottle unfiltered and without additives. In 2018 too, Casreli won awards again with its 2017 harvest at the International Qvevri Wine Competition. By now the first export has taken place: to the Netherlands! We currently have four wines from Casreli Wines in our range. You can view all our wines from Casreli Wines here.
Orange wine (27) 
Fresh (90) 
Light (36) 
Rosé (14) 
Aromatic (22) 
Medium (98) 
Sparkling (27) 
Ripe (71) 
Full-bodied (99) 
