Amber: orange wine from qvevri
Amber (orange) wine is white wine made like a red: the juice ferments together with skins and seeds. Georgia has done this for 8,000 years — in clay qvevri vessels buried in the ground. The colour runs from amber to copper, with tannin, dried fruit, walnut and tea notes.
LEVEL pours one of the largest amber selections in Batumi: Rkatsiteli, Kisi and Krakhuna from small private winemakers you meet at Georgian wine festivals. By the glass, each with its winemaker's story.
A qvevri is a time machine: the technology has not changed in eight thousand years.
Ambers on the list now
Rkatsiteli Qvevri
Qvevri amber wine, six months on skins. Dry, tannic, dried quince and walnut. Small winery, Kakheti.
18 ₾glass78 ₾bottleKisi Amber
SpecialRare Kakhetian Kisi in qvevri: apricot, honey, tea leaf. One of Georgia's finest ambers.
22 ₾glass95 ₾bottleKrakhuna Amber
Imeretian Krakhuna aged on skins: ripe pear, beeswax, long finish.
19 ₾glass82 ₾bottle