- No products in the cart, let's fix that.
- ↝ Join wine club
- ↝ Shop all wine
- ↝ Send wine gift
Tsitska, Tsolikouri, Krakhuna Orange 2019
Ramaz Nikoladze • 750ml • 12%
£25.95
Archil Guniava Tsitska, Tsolikouri, Krakhuna Orange is a natural wine made from a blend of the three Georgian indigenous varietals mentioned in the very name. Vinification in qvevri, traditional big terracotta amphora vessels, no additions, no filtrations, Georgian wine at its best.
PAIR WITH: spicy food, pasta, pizza
Product Description
The Wine: Tsitska, Tsolikouri, Krakhuna Orange 2019
Archil Guniava Tsitska, Tsolikouri, Krakhuna Orange is a natural wine made from a blend of the three Georgian indigenous varietals mentioned in the very name. Vinification in qvevri, traditional big terracotta amphora vessels, no additions, no filtrations, Georgian wine at its best.
The Producer: Archil Guniava
Archil Guniava makes sublimely intense and tautly elegant natural wines in the Imereti region of Western Georgia, as has been a tradition in his family for generations. Unlike Eastern Georgia’s Khaketi’s region, Imereti’s heritage comprises both skin contact amber wines and non-skin contact ones, with perhaps a prevalence of the latter. Archil works with superb results with both techniques, farming organically and vinifying with natural methods, including wild fermentation, the usage of qvevri for both fermentation and aging and refusal of any winemaking additives such as fining, filtration, or added SO2. His focus is on local varieties Tsitska, Tsolikouri, and Krakhuna, from which he crafts wines of golden-hued richness, precision, and pure intensity.
The Region: Western Georgia
✌︎ ✌︎ ✌︎
Shipping & Returns
Stress Free Shipping
At Primal Wine we like to be transparent about everything we do. When it comes to buying products online, shipping is the most important aspect, and that’s why we take great care in shipping and handling your order using only 100% recycled packaging material.
Re-shipping
If a package gets returned to us, we can only re-ship the wine upon payment of a re-shipping fee. Shipping wine is extremely expensive, we are sorry about this, but we have no other choice. Please make sure there's always someone at the address you enter as your shipping address.
Important Compliance Requirements
You must be 18 years-old or older to purchase our wines. There is absolutely no exception to this rule; we are not responsible for misrepresentation of any kind.
Return Policy
If you are not satisfied with your purchase, please contact us via e-mail at hello@primalwine.com, Monday through Friday, we would like to understand and try to solve your concerns.
What is Natural Wine?
Natural winemaking has become a movement akin to a revolution, a nemesis to the industrialization and homogenization of wine in the past three decades. Natural wine producers are at the forefront of this movement, rejecting industrial winemaking techniques and the excessive use of pesticides, fungicides, herbicides or fertilizers in the vineyard. Perhaps even more importantly, natural wine should be seen as an agricultural product where farming is and essential part. Farming conditions, labor rights, sustainability, and ethical practises across the supply chain are now at the center of the discourse on natural wine.
Why Should I Try Natural Wine?
Natural wine is probably the most fascinating wine on the market. Discovering natural wines is made even more exciting by the fact that each vintage is different and has a different flavor. The non-interventionist, hands-off winemaking approach, along with organic and biodynamic best practices in the vineyards, gives wines of unique character. Make sure you read the cards below and if you'd like to go more in-depth, click on the "Read More" links. We hope you enjoy learning about natural wine!
Natural Wine
Natural wine is a type of wine made in small batches from hand-harvested organic or biodynamic grapes with minimal intervention in the cellar. No industrial yeast is added to trigger fermentation or add a particular flavor to a natural wine; the fermentation process is not controlled with temperature-control devices. Read More...
Biodynamic Wine
Biodynamic wine is wine made with grapes farmed biodynamically. Biodynamic farming is a holistic approach to farming, which conceives the farm as a living organism and is based on anthroposophy, a philosophy founded in the early 1920s by the Austrian philosopher and scientist Dr. Rudolf Steiner. Read More...
Organic Wine
Organic wine is wine made with grapes farmed organically - in the United States, no added sulfites are allowed. Organic farming is a type of farming alternative to conventional farming and similar to biodynamic farming, which focuses on sustainability. Organic farmers don’t use fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc. Read More...
Vegan Wine
Vegan wine is wine made without using animal products during the fining phase of the clarification process. Before wine is bottled it is usually clarified and filtered in order to separate and remove solid matter from liquid matter. This can be achieved using fining agents derived from animals, such as egg whites and casein. Read More...
Low-sulfites Wine
Low-sulfites wine is a type of wine with a lower sulfur dioxide content than conventionally made wines, where little or no sulfur dioxide is added to the wine. This does not mean that the wine is without sulfites. During fermentation a small quantity of sulfur dioxide is released into the wine as a form of natural preservative. Read More...