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When Gela closed the qvevri last autumn, it was full of cloudy rkatsiteli grape juice.
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When Mr. Massoud commented favorably on the wine, I asked if he'd consider making a Rkatsiteli too.
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Rkatsiteli is one of the hundreds of grape varieties unique to Georgia.
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Around me, the vineyard itself - half saperavi, half white rkatsiteli.
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Brother Gerasimi Otarashvili has a big chestnutcoloured beard, a black robe and a slightly incongruous mobile phone, which he puts to one side as he pours me a glass of the 2009 rkatsiteli.
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There are exceptions, of course, and two of my favorites are both produced in New York: the Channing Daughters Tocai Friulano, a crisp dry white made from a Friulian grape, and a minerally white Rkatsiteli, a Russian grape grown by Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera Wine Cellars in the Finger Lakes district.
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