Château Mukhrani
Rkatsiteli

Ancient Grape, Contemporary Elegance

Château Mukhrani Rkatsiteli is a masterclass in restraint — a wine that lets one of the world's oldest grape varieties speak with absolute clarity and precision.

Rkatsiteli is one of Georgia's — and the world's — oldest documented cultivated grapevines. DNA analysis has confirmed its cultivation in the South Caucasus for at least 3,000 years, making it among the most historically significant white wine grapes on earth. At Château Mukhrani, it is vinified in pure stainless steel with meticulous temperature control, preserving every nuance of its fresh, aromatic, mineral character.

The Mtskheta-Mtianeti terroir — volcanic and limestone soils, continental climate, altitude-driven cool nights — imparts a distinctive mineral tension and freshness that separates this wine from Rkatsiteli produced elsewhere.

Sensory Profile

Rkatsiteli — An Ancient Georgian White

Rkatsiteli (literally "red stem" in Georgian) is one of the world's oldest continuously cultivated grape varieties, with origins in Georgia's Eastern Kakheti region. For centuries, it was the dominant white grape across the Soviet Union, but its true character is best expressed in its Georgian homeland, where it produces wines of remarkable complexity.

Rkatsiteli's extraordinary versatility makes it uniquely fascinating: stainless steel fermentation — as used in this Château Mukhrani bottling — emphasises its fresh, aromatic, crisp character. But the same grape can also be used for amber wine production via extended skin contact in qvevri, producing wines of extraordinary texture, oxidative complexity, and ageing potential.