作者： 发布时间：2017-08-16 关注度：228

A group of American sommeliers is visiting Georgia for a week tour, under the frame of which the wine professionals will see wine cellars in Samegrelo, Imereti, Kartli and Kakheti. The visit was organized by the National Wine Agency. The guests have already tasted wines in the Western Georgia and now, they are in Kakheti.

一个美国侍酒师代表将对格鲁吉亚展开为期一周的访问考察，在此期间，这些葡萄酒专业人士将参观萨梅格列罗、伊梅列季、卡尔特里和卡赫基的酒庄。本次考察由格鲁吉亚国家葡萄酒局主办，代表团成员们已经品尝了格鲁吉亚西部地区的葡萄酒，而今他们来到了卡赫基。

The group of wine professionals is headed by the chair of  “Marq Energie”, Agency contractor American marketing company, Julie Peterson, who states, that the interest towards Georgian wine on the US market is progressive.

格鲁吉亚国家葡萄酒局在美国的签约营销公司“Marq Energie”董事长朱莉·彼得森任代表团团长，她表示美国市场对格鲁吉亚葡萄酒的兴趣正在升温。

“We are here this week in Georgia with a group of  sommeliers from the US market, from some of the top restaurants in the US market, because we are trying to introduce them also to the exciting wine environment that is happening in Georgia right now, already in this year, exports have been up 43% from last year to the US market, so we just want to continue introducing the trade to all the producers here in the market, we are bringing  importers and  media, this group and particular sommeliers from Chicago, Saint Louis and New York City, they have just had an amazing week so far, learning about the diversity of the grapes from Georgia and the producers, so we just look for to  the rest of the week and we have a  waiting list of other sommeliers from the US market who are really interested in exploring and understanding  what is happening in Georgia right now” - stated Julie Peterson.

 “本周我们和来自美国市场的侍酒师代表团一同来到这里，为了使他们了解目前格鲁吉亚葡萄酒大环境的繁荣态势。仅仅在今年，格鲁吉亚葡萄酒对美出口与去年同期相比便激增了43%，因此我们希望继续推动美国葡萄酒行业对此的了解。我们邀请了来自芝加哥、圣路易斯和纽约市的进口商、媒体人士、特别是侍酒师来到这里，他们度过了精彩的一周，格鲁吉亚的葡萄品种和酒庄给他们留下了深刻印象，对于接下来的行程我们拭目以待，我们在美国还有一份长长的候选名单，活跃于美国市场的许多侍酒师对探索和了解格鲁吉亚葡萄酒目前状况兴味盎然。”朱莉·彼得森说。

The sommelier of one of the top restaurants in New York, James Slay is specially attracted by Aladasturi. He says that it's been a long time he wanted to come to Georgia and taste the wines on the place of it's birth.

来自纽约一家顶级餐厅的侍酒师詹姆斯·斯雷被阿拉达斯图利葡萄酒深深吸引，他表示：自己一直期待着来到格鲁吉亚，亲自在葡萄酒的诞生地品尝佳酿。

“Wine is made by traditional methods in Georgia, but they are experimenting and changing, that's what really inspired me to come on this trip. In addition to that, what I have learnt or started to understand is moving across the country  starting in Tbilisi, and going all the way to Imereti and coming all the way back  here in Kakheti seeing the range and the diversity in terms of regionality, and in terms of being able to stand in he place and feel the sun here, the way the rain feels, the way the air feels and the great varieties being different in styles and wine being different and the lightness and the freshness of Western wines and intensity and the power and concentration and structure of the Eastern wines, I started to understand Georgian Wine not just as a single thing, not just as Georgian wine, but as a whole spectrum of different sort of possibilities and flavors and  even though I have tasted 30 Georgian wines, I came here and  tasted so many great varieties I had never tasted before, Aladasturi for example in Imereti was like I could not believe what I was tasting, I've never had anything like that not from Georgia, not really from anywhere” - stated the sommelier.

“在格鲁吉亚，人们仍然沿用传统酿酒技艺，但实验和变化正在发生，这正是促使我来到这里的原因。此外，我了解到——或者说是开始明白——当我穿越这片土地，从第比利斯到伊梅列季，再回到卡赫基，我目睹了广阔的土地和多姿多彩的地区特色，我站在这里，感受这里的阳光，雨水，空气和独具特色的葡萄酒，西部葡萄酒轻快爽口，而东部葡萄酒醇厚浓郁，富于力量和厚重感。我开始理解格鲁吉亚葡萄酒并非孤立的个体，而有层出不穷的可能性，各具特色的风味，虽然我已经品尝过30款格鲁吉亚葡萄酒，但当我来到这里，我品尝到之前从未品尝过的，令人惊艳的葡萄酒，比如产于伊梅列季的阿拉达斯图利，简直难以置信，我在格鲁吉亚以外的地方——事实上在任何地方——都没有品尝过这款佳酿。”这位侍酒师说。

Under the frame of the tour, American sommeliers had the opportunity to visit the following wine companies: “Iago Wines”, “Chateau Mukhrani”, “Ramaz Nikoladze Wines”, “Oda Family Winery”, “Vino Martville”, “Vartsikhe Marani”, “Winery Khareba – Imereti”, “ Telavi Wine Cellar”, “Tchotiashvili Wine Cellar”, “Schuchmann Wines”, “Orgo/Vita Vinea”,”Shalauri Cellars”, “Shumi”,”Chelti”, “Papari Valley”, “Joni Oqro”, “Pheasant's Tears”, “Askaneli Brothers”, “Shavnabada”, “Lukasi”, they also visited  Qvevri-maker, Zaza Kbilashvili.

旅行考察期间，美国侍酒师参观了下列葡萄酒公司：“Iago葡萄酒公司”、 “穆库堡”、 “Ramaz Nikoladze葡萄酒公司”、“Oda家庭酿酒厂”、“Vino Martville”、“Vartsikhe Marani”、“伊梅列季海列巴酿酒厂”、“ 特拉维酒窖”, “Tchotiashvili 酒窖”、“Schuchmann葡萄酒公司”、“Orgo/Vita Vinea”、”Shalauri酒窖”, “Shumi”、”Chelti”, “Papari Valley”、“Joni Oqro”、“山鸡之泪”, “Askaneli兄弟公司”、 “Shavnabada”、“Lukasi”，他们还访问了qvevri陶罐制作师札札·赫比拉什维利（Zaza Kbilashvili）。

The USA is one of the potentially progressive and important export market for Georgian wine. Marketing activities in the US will provide Georgian wine publicity growth and popularization in the US market and widening Georgian wine export area in general. According to the data of 6 months of the current year, 176 274 bottles (0,75) of wine have been exported from Georgia to the Us, that is 43% higher than the similar data of the previous year.

作为格鲁吉亚葡萄酒重要出口市场之一，美国蕴含着巨大的上升潜力。营销活动将扩大格鲁吉亚葡萄酒在美国市场的知名度和消费者好感度，并从总体上扩大格鲁吉亚葡萄酒的出口规模。今年前6个月的数据显示：格鲁吉亚对美出口葡萄酒已达176,274瓶（每瓶750毫升），比去年同期增加43%。