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The Kisi Grape


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About Kisi

(Synonyms: Kissi, Maghranuli.)

Background

Map showing modern-day Georgia.

Kisi is a white-wine grape originating in Kakheti, a region in the southeast of what is now the Republic of Georgia. It is a rather good wine, but so little known that even Wikipedia and Wine Searcher have no pages for it.

Nowadays, Kisi wines are made in two distinct styles: traditional, which involves fermentation in qvevri, and modern, following standard European winemaking methods. Either way, Kisi wines show floral aromas and flavors of tree fruit (apples and pears), often so intense that the wines, though quite dry, seem off-dry. Traditionally vinified Kisi wines tend to show further complex flavors, notably apricot, orange, and even mint.

(Note that in the “Descriptions” below, many refer to particular Kisi wines, owing to the scarcity of published material dealing with Kisi wines in general.)

All in all, it looks like Kisis is quite a little gem of a wine, and as yet almost wholy undiscovered in the U.S.

Factoid: Kisi is another of the growing number of so-called >“orange wines”.

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Some Descriptions of Kisi Wines

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Some Kisi Bottlings to Try

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  Wines with a critics’ consensus score of 89:
Shumi "Iberiuli" Kisi   [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine]

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