Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
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Re: Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
#2Crazy to think that’s roughly around when white people started becoming… white.
It was basically all dark skinned people on the planet before then.
Re: Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
#3Georgian cuisine and drinking is little known in the west but it's really, really good.
It's a pity the country has been democratically backsliding for a while, which has limited their hopes of tighter integration with the EU.
Re: Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
#4They're very proud of it too, but having spent time in Tbilisi (strong recommend!), there's a very simple reason you can buy French and Australian wine at your local shop, but nobody has bothered to make sure there's a good selection of Georgian wine there.
Re: Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
#5Crazy to think that’s roughly around when white people started becoming… white. It was basically all dark skinned people on the planet before then.
There's a reason they call them Caucasian.
Re: Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
#6They're very proud of it too, but having spent time in Tbilisi (strong recommend!), there's a very simple reason you can buy French and Australian wine at your local shop, but nobody has bothered to make sure there's a good selection of Georgian wine there.
Germany and especially Austria produce some rather poor reds but have carved out a niche for Riesling and Gewürtztraminer. Is there a similar niche for Georgian wine?
Re: Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
#7Georgian cuisine and drinking is little known in the west but it's really, really good. It's a pity the country has been democratically backsliding for a while, which has limited their hopes of tighter integration with the EU.
I doubt they will benefit from that integration much. But I'm pretty sure the way there will hurt. Georgia's economy is tied to Russia at the moment, and as you said Westerners are not exactly lining up to travel to Georgia and order its wine (Russians are).
The narrative "people want EU (aka freedom and democracy), but bad dictators won't let them" is a populist one. And EU has been using it like carrot and stick to steer Georgia away from Russia, disregarding the cost of it for Georgia. That time when EU declared Georgian elections illegitimate (with no actual basis provided) to me was a violation of Georgia's sovereignty.
Elections in Georgia are very competitive. I've heard that government was slowly putting pressure on media, but I don't remember anything major. Georgia could be the most democratic of ex-USSR except Baltics today.
Re: Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
#8They're very proud of it too, but having spent time in Tbilisi (strong recommend!), there's a very simple reason you can buy French and Australian wine at your local shop, but nobody has bothered to make sure there's a good selection of Georgian wine there.
what _is_ that reason, out of curiosity?
Re: Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
#9Re: Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
#10Georgian cuisine and drinking is little known in the west but it's really, really good. It's a pity the country has been democratically backsliding for a while, which has limited their hopes of tighter integration with the EU.
Seconding all of this. The food is truly fantastic, and the Georgian people are awesome, but the way they've let Putin slide in to just the right places is holding back the country.
I've never been so invested in a puppet show as the puppet theater in Tblisi.