That's a Wrap! Completing Harvest, Final Footage
(Zurab and son Ioane harvesting local red varietals in Guria: November) The last month in Georgia has found us criss-crossing the country...
Three Harvest Beginnings, One Moon Cycle
(with Ramaz Nikoladze and his wife Nestan, harvesting Tsolikouri at dusk in Imereti) Autumn can arrive very swiftly in Georgia; after a...
Georgia in Perspective: Journeys in Armenia and Turkey
(with archeologist Boris Gasparyan in southern Armenia) September has been a whirlwind month of nearly non-stop travel, mostly outside of...
The Noise of Time
(Zaliko Bodjidze in his studio) Everything has its time in Georgia, and summer is the season for crafting qvevri - the warm temperatures...
Change, Inertia, and a 'first' Georgian Wine?
(L-R: Archeologists Steven Batiuk (CAN), Mikhael Abramishvili (GEO), and JQ, at an ancient qvevri pit. Mikhael shows how tall the...
Caves and Terraces
(with Giorgi Natenadze at ancient wine terraces in southern Georgia) I can't imagine trying to understand Georgia's history as a nation...
On the Roof of the World
(The view to inner Tusheti - the high Caucasus - from the Abano Pass. Our single-track road snakes through the foreground) I've never...
Origins of Wine, Past and Present
(JQ with Mindia Jalabadze from the National Museum, at a Neolithic-era [5900BC] archeological site where ancient clay wine vessels were...
The expansive soul of Imereti
(with Ramaz Nikoladze in his 'wild/Fukuoka' Tsolikouri vineyard, early July) Few works on agriculture have inspired me more than Masanobu...
Guria's Extraordinary Terroir: a weekend in Western Georgia
(JQ walking Gurian terraces with Zurab Topuridze) Our past weekend of filming in the humid, sub-tropical West Georgian region of Guria...
