5 to 13 September, 2026

Natia, our Georgian guide

Below is a summary itinerary per day:

• Day 1: Arrival, Wine workshop and welcome dinner

• Day 2: History and artisans tour

• Day 3: Sighnaghi, Bread baking class, Horse riding, Beer tasting

• Day 4: Vashlovani National Park, Winery dinner

• Day 5: Mtskheta church and cathedral, Mindful wine tasting, Mountain Lodge

• Day 6: Uplistsikhe Cave Town, Winery visit, Kutaisi

• Day 7: Market visit, Martvili Canyon, Cooking class and Winery visit

• Day 8: Khachapuri making class, Sulphur baths, Farewell winner with polyphonic singing

• Day 9: Departure

Day 1 : Arrival, Wine workshop & Welcome dinner

Upon your arrival in Tbilisi, make your way to our fabulous hotel in the city.

If you arrive early, you can explore Tbilisi on your own until our group meeting in the afternoon.

After introductions and a briefing of the week’s itinerary, we will head over to an underground wine bar for an introduction and tasting of Georgian wines.

It is believed that wine comes from Georgia, where it originated a few thousand years ago, so this is the cradle of one of the greatest drinks of all time.

Trust us when we say this: you should forget everything you know about wine when visiting Georgia, wine production is unique here and can’t be compared to wine anywhere else.

You’ll learn about the to main wine regions, how wine is fermented in contact with the skin in traditional qvevry vessels and what makes natural wines special.

We will taste a few different wines from female owned wineries and pair them with over a dozen Georgian cheeses. The evening will continue with our first amazing meal of many, at the restaurant of a pioneering female chef.

Georgia produces more than 250 varieties of cheese, and many of them are like nothing you ever tried before, while others resemble famous cheeses like mozzarella.

Georgia has one of the few differentiated cuisines in Europe, waiting to be discovered and enjoyed, and we will do just that, all week, starting with our welcome dinner.

Overnight at Rooms Hotel 4*

Rooms is a lifestyle brand of young luxury Georgian hotels with an artistic flair and a penchant for the cool.

The hotel’s bar and terrace are the place for creatives and intellectuals to meet in Tbilisi. When you need a break, retire to your cozy and spacious room, or chill in the courtyard terrace or buzzing outdoor bar.

Inclusions: Welcome drinks, wine workshop and tasting, welcome dinner with wine.

Day 2 : Tbilisi old town & Enamel workshop

Activity: Approximately 4 hour walking tour with stops
Driving: Minimal.

We will start the day a bit later so you can have a lazy breakfast before exploring Tbilisi’s history and artsy scene.

We will wander the Old Town, exploring its cobblestone pedestrian alleys and stopping at a few women owned stores along the way.

We will walk up to the Metekhi Virgin Mary Assumption Church for the great views and a quick visit, and take a look at the modern, wavy Bridge of peace.

We will learn about the legend that led to the discovery of its sulphuric hot springs and today’s baths neighbourhood.

We will stop at an enamel studio and have a private demonstration to see how enamel jewelry and icons are made.

We will have lunch at an innovative female owned restaurant to sample some of Georgia’s most delicious foods in a quiet courtyard housed in an old mansion.

In the afternoon, we will continue up, taking the cable car to Narikala Fortress for a visit (if opened) and to enjoy panoramic views over the city below.

You will have some free time for dinner to sample some of our recommended restaurants or chill at the hotel’s happening bar.

Overnight at Rooms Hotel 4*.

Note: The order and schedule of the day may change.

Inclusions: Breakfast at the hotel, walking tour of Tbilisi, enamel workshop, lunch at a famous female owned restaurant.

Day 3 : Sighnaghi, Churchella aand Bread baking class, Horse riding & Beer tasting

Activity: 1 hour walking tour, 1 hour hiking or horse riding
Driving: Total of 3 hours.

Today we are heading to the famous Kakheti wine region, a couple of hours from Tbilisi.

We will start the day with breakfast at the hotel and will the get on our minibus to Sighnaghi, a historical town in the center of the region.

Upon arrival, we will take a walking tour of this pretty village perched on top of a ridge.

Sighnaghi has the most incredible panoramic views over the plains below and the towering Caucasus Mountains in the background and is surrounded by a medieval wall.

We will have a walk through the streets and have lunch at a local restaurant with great views.

After lunch, we will check in to our hotel and continue the day to a female-owned ranch in the mountains, surrounded by beautiful rolling hills.

The ranch has a dozen Caucasian horses ready to take us on an easy ride through the quiet mountains.

If you don’t wish to ride, you can join a hike to a nearby chapel instead and immerse yourself in nature, or chill with panoramic views of the mountains below.

We will spend the rest of the afternoon at the ranch.

Women from a local community will join us and show a few of Georgia’s crafts using felt and other materials.

They will also teach us how to bake traditional Georgian bread in the tandoori oven, and make churchella, Georgia’s healthy energy bar made from walnuts and grape juice. This is a great snack you can easily replicate at home.

We will end the day trying the ranch’s craft beers made using local cereals, especially ancient wheat varieties, fruits and herbs that are endemic to Georgia.

We will return to Sighnaghi for a free evening.

Chill at the hotel’s spa area, complete with Turkish baths, a sauna and an infinity indoor heated pool, and venture out into town for a quiet meal

Inclusions: Breakfast at the hotel, lunch at a restaurant with views, transport in a minibus, walking tour of Sighnaghi, horse riding, churchella and bread baking demo, felt workshop and beer tasting.

Overnight at Kabadoni Boutique Hotel 4*

We will stay at Sighnaghi’s best hotel located at the top of the village with panoramic views over the town, the valley and the Caucasus mountains.

Rooms are modern, with a touch of traditional decor, and spacious. We have selected rooms facing the mountains so you can wake up to the best views in the area.

Breakfast can be enjoyed in the outdoor terrace.

Day 4 : Vashlovani National Park & Pioneer Winery dinner

Activity: 30-45 min walking.
Driving: 4 hour road trip.

Today is all about the outdoors.

We will enjoy a wonderful breakfast with the best views before jumping on our 4×4 cars and heading to Vashlovani National Park, a semi-deserted and badlands park with canyons and wild gazelle.

The park is located on the border between Georgia and Azerbaijan and is flanked by the Caucasus mountains on one side and rolling agricultural land on the other, where sheep, horses and cows roam freely.

We will ride through green fields for a couple of hours until we reach the entrance to the park and start seeing the unique landscapes and layers of different colors.

We will head towards the floodplains in search of wild gazelle and peaceful tortoises. On the way, we will spot birds, reptiles and maybe foxes, wolves or lynxes.

We will stop for picnic at one of the shelters and feast on cheese, vegetables and other delicacies.

In the afternoon, we will return to Sighnaghi for dinner.

We will head out to Pheasant’s Tears, the winery that started Georgia’s natural wines movement, for a wine tasting dinner guided by the manager at their main restaurant in town.

Pheasant’s Tears is Georgia’s most famous winery. Founded by an American who studied fine arts in Moscow and moved to Georgia more than 20 years ago, it remains one of the most respected projects in the country.

All wines are fermented and aged in qvevry, some of which are more than 100 years old, and preserve the winemaking heritage of the country.

The winery focuses on endemic varieties of grapes and has brought back the old traditions that set Georgian wines apart from the rest of the world.

Every wine is unique at Phaesant’s Tears; from the blend made with more than 400 varieties of grapes, to the long fermentation in contact with skins, prepare to be shocked by wines that resemble nothing you ever tried before.

After dinner, we will return to the hotel.

Overnight at Kabadoni Boutique Hotel 4*.

Inclusions: Breakfast at the hotel, 4×4 safari in Vashlovani National Park, picnic lunch, dinner at Pheasant’s Tears.

Day 5 : Mtskheta, Mindful wine tasting & Mountain Lodge

Activity: 1 hour walking tour.
Driving: 3 hours.

Today, we are leaving the Kakheti wine region and heading northeast.

We will start the day with one more breakfast with Caucasus Mountains view before driving back to Tbilisi and onwards to the city of Mtskheta.

Mtskheta is the historical capital of Georgia and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world with archeological evidence traced back to the 2nd millennium BC.

The city is considered Holy by the Georgian Orthodox Church since 2014 and is the location of the country’s most important religious sites, which are also listed as UNESCO’s World Heritage sites, Svetitskhoveli Cathedral and Jvari Monastery, or Monastery of the Cross.

From the 6th century Jvari Monastery we will see the confluence of the Mtkvari and Aragvi rivers, the merging waters of which are visible, and learn more about Georgia’s most beloved religious figure, Saint Nino.

Saint Nino is credited with converting Georgia’s King Mirian III of Iberia into Christianity in the 4th century AD and this is the location where her famous wooden cross, made of grape vines, was erected. The wine tradition started really early in Georgia!

After the stop, we will head into town to visit the cathedral and you will have a bit of free time for some souvenir shopping or to try wine ice cream.

We will leave Mtskheta behind and head towards Ateni wine region, where vineyards grow in pergolas on terraced hills.

Ateni is one of the oldest wine producing regions in the world and its wines are considered fit for kings and often referred to as “noble wines”.

We will meet one of the smallest wine producers in Georgia and the world, Nino, who returned to the family’s home to produce natural wines.

She a micro winemaker and produces fewer than 500 bottles a year, so every bottle is literally handmade.

Nino will guide us through a mindful wine tasting lunch where we will savor every sip and feel the grapes and the terroir in a way that will teach us to be in the moment.

Our vegetarian lunch will be prepared by women from South Ossetia who were displaced by the conflict and who work with Nino in the vineyards and mindful wine tasting project.

We will end the day checking in to our mountain lodge that is part of a family run winery, and is located in the mountains.

We will hear about their project and enjoy a home made dinner among nature’s silence with their wines.

Overnight at Nika Vacheishvili’s Guest House 3*

Nika Vacheishvili used to be a Georgian minister before he retired to the countryside and started a boutique winery and guesthouse above the terraced vineyards of Ateni with his wife.

To access the guest house, we will leave the bus behind and walk on a gravel nature path for 10 minutes. Our luggage will come in a vintage Soviet car.

The guesthouse is located in a newly built adjacent property to their stone house right in the middle of the mountains. Rooms are simple but have modern amenities.

Inclusions: Breakfast at the hotel, lunch, Mtskheta walking tour with visit to the main churches, mindful wine tasting lunch, dinner with wine, transportation in a minibus.

Day 6 : Uplistsikhe cave town, Winery lunch & Kutaisi walking tour

Activity: 90 min walking tour in the cave town (uphill) and 90 min walking tour in Kutaisi.
Driving: 2 hours.

Uplistsikhe Rock-Hewn Town dates back from the 2nd millennium BC to the Medieval ages and literally translates as The Lord’s Fortress.

The town is on the tentative list of UNESCO’s World Heritage sites and contains many structures with influence from Iran to Anatolia and combines pagan and Christian architecture.

The advent of Christianity led to the town’s decline in favor of other religious centers and in the 12th century it was ravaged by the Mongols.

We will visit the town on a walking tour and continue our day north towards Kutaisi.

On our way, we will stop at a restaurant and organic winery producing natural wines and serving farm to table village food using local ingredients grown at the farm or by women in the surrounding areas.

The project is led by a feminist who dropped a career in the male-dominated diplomatic service in favor of the wine industry.

She moved from Tbilisi to the countryside to join her husband and started her project to support every “sister in law” in the area.

We will enjoy the wines and food and have a lazy afternoon talking feminism and life in Georgia’s rural countryside.

We will end the day in Kutaisi. After checking in to the hotel, we will head out for a walking tour.

You will have free time for dinner and to explore Kutaisi on your own.

Inclusions: Breakfast at the hotel, lunch feast and visit at the winery, guided tour of Uplistsikhe and Kutaisi.

Overnight at Best Western Hotel Kutaisi 4*

Best Western Hotel is a modern hotel that has been recently renovated and is right in the city center.

Rooms are comfortable and the hotel has a rooftop terrace and bar with great panoramic views over the entire city.

Day 7 : Kutaisi market, Martvili Canyon, Cooking demo

Activity: 1 hour walking tour, 30 min paddleboat tour and 30 min walk.
Driving: 4 hours.

We will have breakfast at the hotel and check out the local market.

Churchella, fruit jams, local cheeses, vegetables and herbs are all on display at this local market, an explosion of color and flavors.

After the market, we will jump in the minibus to drive to the cathedral of Kutaisi, previously a UNESCO heritage site that was removed from the list after the renovation efforts deviated too much from the original.

Next up is a visit to Martvili Canyon, a scenic and picturesque canyon filled with turquoise waters, that can be explored through a series of suspended bridges.

This used to be the bath place for the Dadiani noble family, a princely lineage that started in the 13th century.

We will take a short paddleboat tour through the narrow canyon and then have free time to explore the rest of the area.

Our journey towards Tbilisi will continue at one of the first female owned wineries in Georgia, started by a famous local writer and intellectual.

We will not only visit the organic winery and the vineyards, and taste her natural wines, but also participate in a cooking class of Megrelian elargi, Georgia’s most acclaimed cuisine.

This is going to be the prettiest and tastiest farm to table meal yet, even though by the time we arrive, you will be wondering if that is at all possible!

Mingrelian cuisine is famous for its liberal use of spices and its khachapuri that has cheese inside and on top.

We will enjoy our lunch among the vineyards and garden and chat with the owner about the Georgian wine scene and what it takes to run a business as a woman.

After a long lazy lunch, we will drive back to Tbilisi, before our final day on tour.

Overnight at Iota Hotel 4*

Inclusions: Breakfast at the hotel, visit and boat tour at Martvili Canyon, wine tasting, cooking demo and lunch, transport in a minibus.

Day 8 : Khachapuri making, Sulphur baths & Farewell dinner

Activity: 30 minutes plus free time to walk.

We will have breakfast at the hotel and start our day later with a cooking class of the country’s most famous dishes: Acharuli khachapuri.

If you have ever tried Georgian food, you probably came across this delicious dish, so this is your chance to learn how to make it.

Acharuli khachapuri is the most famous kind of khachapuri, Georgia’s national dish. This baked bread, cheese and egg combo is as delicious as it is indulging and is one of the few dishes in Georgian cuisine that has to be enjoyed individually and using a specific technique and not shared.

We will taste all our creations for lunch alongside other salads and dishes.

We will then head over to the sulphur baths neighbourhood for a private soaking session followed by a traditional kisa massage.

Kisa massage is similar to the scrubbing that takes place in a Moroccan hammam.

We have booked private suites for the group where you can enjoy the natural sulphuric hot springs combined with cold plunges in the pools.

After the baths, we will have free time to go shopping or relax at the hotel.

Our farewell dinner will be accompanied by a private polyphonic singing performance and held at the famous restaurant of a Georgian TV personality and juror of the local Masterchef.

Through her hospitality empire, she has put Georgian cuisine on the map and managed to bring back forgotten recipes and ingredients.

On day 9, depart anytime after breakfast making your way to the airport depending on your flight time.

Overnight at Iota Hotel 4*

Iota Hotel is a local luxury boutique hotel in the old part of Tbilisi, walking distance to all the sights and many shops, which is why we have picked it for the last two nights in the city, so you can use your free time for any last minute shopping or exploration.

The hotel’s bright green lobby and restaurant are a treat, and one of the nicest ways to start the day. Rooms are modern and recently renovated.

Inclusions: Breakfast at the hotel, khachapuri demo and lunch at local restaurant, farewell dinner with wine and polyphonic performance, private sulphur bath session with kisa massage, transfers in private minibus.

About Your Host, Natia

Our Georgian guide will be Natia Khidasheli. She has been a professional tour guide in Georgia for 12 years, and has a passion for cultural and wine tourism that is contagious!

She is a Sommelier/ Wine professional as well as a tour guide, and has a wealth of knowledge in local history, culture, gastronomy and wine (Georgia is the birthplace of wine!).

She is bilingual in English and Russian, and often works as a translator for local winemakers, wine writers and wine journalists.

She can’t wait to introduce you to her country.

Karen – “I had the great fortune of being on the inaugural trip to Georgia and it surpassed all expectations!

Everything was planned with meticulous detail, providing truly unique experiences that would be impossible to create on your own.

I highly recommend Georgia and look forward to my next SFT trip!”

Marilyn – “Why Georgia? Because I didn’t know anything about it! What a wonderful experience! I learned so much about it from millions of years ago to the present day. It’s only about the size of South Carolina but contains a variety of geography, culture, history and culinary delights. And the wine and the people are fabulous.Just look at the photos and imagine yourselves there!”