Living Roots Travel

08/05/2024

🍷Here’s a list of our beloved Natural Wine Fairs happening in May. Here we meet, taste and celebrate with the winemakers and drinkers alike. More than 120 local and international producers will pour their love into our glasses.

You can always meet some of them in their cellars and vineyards on our Wine Tours across Georgia.

Zero Compromise - May 9-10 - Artarea new location
Saamuri Wine Salon - May 11 - Fabrika
Sherekilebi at Iago’s Winery - May 12 - in Chardakhi village

Bonus for today, May 8, Warehouse natural wine bar opening at Stamba.

In between the festivals, we will always join the peaceful demonstrations, where we say NO to the Russian Law and YES to Georgia’s European future. 🇬🇪 🇪🇺

25/04/2024

16/03/2024

Discover Kakheti - unusual places, exceptional experiences, great guides = unforgettable tours ☀️

Find out more 💌 [email protected]

14/03/2024

🌱 Plant Safety point near Sighnaghi. Wonder if the Cabbages feel alright?

14/03/2024

This will be a great event in Tbilisi on Saturday night! 💥
We love to work with Vintners & Vagabonds when we send guests to Imereti as their wine & food offering is so unique.
Pair this with wines never before seen in Georgia and it makes for a once in a lifetime evening 🍷🍴✨

✨ნატურალური ღვინის მოყვარულებს ძალიან მაგარ საღამოს გთავაზობთ ჯი.ვინო • G.Vino და Vintners & Vagabonds-ის მარანი.
შაბათს, 16 მარტს იშვიათი იმერული და ლეჩხუმური ღვინოების დეგუსტაცია ვახშმის თანხლებით! არ გამოტოვოთ ეს საღამო! 🍇🍷
☎️დეტალებისთვის ეწვიეთ : https://gvino.me/პროდუქტი/იგავის-ღვინოების-დეგუსტა/
ან დაუკავშირდით ნომერზე: 598 932 121

ეიდენმა პირველი ღვინო ავსტრალიაში, ქალაქ მელბურნში, საკუთარი სახლის ავტოფარეხში „Vin du Patron“-ის ეტიკეტის ქვეშ დაამზ.....

08/03/2024

Exploring the hidden gems of Bakhmaro: visiting the eco migrants from upper Adjara, looking for their colorful traditional embroidery, dairy products and all this in an amazing natural setting.

Tomorrow March 9th, at 2 PM - the Dome hall at Stamba Hotel will hold a public discussion about Bakhmaro and the monstrous Orbi Project that was announced recently.

06/03/2024

“Mountains of Georgia, Ushguli’s slopes entice skiers with pristine powder and untracked runs—conditions that can be increasingly rare in more popular Alpine ski destinations.

But most enticing of all might be what awaits visitors off the slopes: the chance to connect with the proud and resilient culture of Ushguli, which has endured for centuries despite the rugged terrain, harsh climate, and Soviet-era attempts to transform it.”

🟨 National Geographic - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/medieval-village-buzziest-place-ski

📝 Ekaterine Goglidze
📸 Curil Jazbec

04/03/2024

✌🏻 Happy to meet our existing partners & friends in Berlin and looking forward to starting great new partnerships. See you at ITB 2024 🏔️🐎🍷🧳

26/02/2024

Zero Compromise - Main Natural Wine Fair of the Year this May 9-10 in Tbilisi🍷 2 Days of wine, love and sharing! Known & New Winemakers & Wines / New Location / Same Spirit!

For private wine tours across Georgia 🍇 write us at [email protected]

Festival Tickets at TKT.GE

https://tkt.ge/event/401197/bunebrivi-ghvinis-festivali-zero-compromise?

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21/02/2024

“The final days of Georgian Nomads” - Andrée Moser 2024 Prize 📸

Le Prix Andrée Moser 2024 a été décernée ce week-end, lors de la 11e Nuit de la Photo La Chaux-de-fonds, à la photographe géorgienne Natela Grigalashvili pour sa série “The final days of Georgian Nomads”.

14/02/2024

Let’s meet at ITB in Berlin, March 5-7, Hall 11.2 | 112

14/02/2024

“This page is a portal. No, really, it is: Our annual Best of the World feature is a gateway to the streets of Paris, the snowy Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, the ancient rock art of Algeria.

To help us engage with places more deeply and meaningfully, we drew on National Geographic’s global community of experts to create the following ranked list of 20 great adventures for 2024.

Read on and you’ll discover that this page is also a celebration—of travel’s power to transform us and our connections with one another.”

From a horseback safari in Kenya to river rafting in West Virginia, here’s our ranked list of the top travel experiences right now.

14/02/2024

GEORGIAN CINEMA UNTAMED - Mini-Retrospective of 7 Films from 1930-2023 at Berlin 🇩🇪 Feb 17-18. Get inspired and plan your next trip to Georgia 🇬🇪 more info below:

On the occasion of the premiere of the film “Mother and Daughter, or the Night Is Never Complete” by Lana Gogoberidze in this year’s Berlinale Forum / Forum Expanded we present it on the 17th. and 18. February, in cooperation with the new, independent Georgian Film Institute, a mini-retrospective with seven films from 1930 to 2023 that show how Georgian cinema remained “unbound” against the backdrop of the country’s changing socio-political history. Despite great international recognition for Georgian cinema, female filmmakers are still under enormous political pressure today; about 450 filmmakers boycott state cultural institutions and accuse the government with clear censorship tendencies. It seems even more important to us to give your works a platform and context!

Filme der Reihe: BUBA und UJMURI von Nutsa Gogoberidse (1934), ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A SINGING BLACKBIRD von Otar Iosseliani (1970), TAMING THE GARDEN von Salomé Jashi (2021), A ROOM OF MY OWN von Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze (2022), MAGIC MOUNTAIN von Mariam Chachia (2023) und SMILING GEORGIA von von Luka Beradze (2023).

Come around and enjoy great Georgian Cinema and wines especially selected for the weekend!

13/02/2024

Long-awaited direct flights with London are said to return this May.

“Aviation analyst Sean Moulton sees the resumption of flights to London as part of Georgia’s bid for closer ties with the West, and increasing tourist arrivals will certainly boost the economy. International engagement seems to be one of the driving forces behind Georgian creativity, and plenty of foreign artists, designers, and entrepreneurs are flocking to Tbilisi in search of inspiration, adding their own energy and ideas to the mix.”

Direct flights to Georgia’s capital are returning in May, making it easier for Britons to discover this dynamic and beguiling destination

07/02/2024

RIP Saba Kiknadze. Our deepest condolences to the family, friends, industry and the country. He will be greatly missed.

"Saba was an icon, a pioneer of tourism. He opened Georgia and the entire region to the world and tourism.” The late Saba’s legacy for Tourism in Georgia is more than remarkable."

A National Tourism Hero, Mr. Saba Kiknadze passed away today in his native country Georgia. He lost his long battle with a rare cancer.

03/02/2024

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02/02/2024

Many of you have personally met, while some of you will meet this wonderful ensemble on our tours. Meanwhile you can listen to their new album 🎶

გამარჯობა, მეგობარო!

ამ ალბომში მოისმენ დიდგორელების მიერ ნამღერ მეგრულ-აფხაზურ სიმღერებს და დარწმუნდები, რომ ქართველებსა და აფხაზებს ბევრი რამ გვაქვს საერთო. ჩვენ უკვე 20 წელია ერთად ვმღერით ამ სიმღერებს და თანაბარი სიყვარულით წარვადგენთ მათ მსმენელის წინაშე. ეს ალბომი ჩვენთვის მუსიკაზე მეტია. ვიმედოვნებთ, ბევრი ადამიანის გულს გაათბობს ენგურის ორივე მხარეს. ეს არის მრავალხმიანი და შეხმატკბილებული გზავნილი ყველა თაობისათვის და სუფთა ფურცელი - ერთად სათქმელი სიმღერისათვის.

ჰარირა-ჰარირამა...
🎶 Spotify: https://bit.ly/Harira-Harirama

Мшыбзиа сҩыза!
Ари альбом аҿы уазыӡыҩруеит Дидгориаа ирҳәо иаҳҳәо агыруа – аԥсуа ашәақәа, агәра угоит, ақырҭуаии, аԥсуааи ирзеиԥшу даараӡа ишырацәоу. Ҳарҭ 20 шықәса ҵуеит арҭ ашәақәа ҳҳәоижьҭеи, насгьы ҳара ҳансамбыль еиԥшу абзиабарала ирыдҳгалоит ҳзыӡыҩрцәа. Ари альбом ҳара ҳзын амузыка ацкьыс акырзҵазкуа ауп, Игры нырцә – аарцә, ауаа рацәа рыгәқәа шарԥхо атәы агәыра ҳагоит. Ари абжьырацәареи, абжьеиқәшәареи змоу анашьҭра ауп абиԥарақәа зегьы рзы, абӷьыц цқьа – еицаҳҳәаша ашәа азын.

Ҳарира- Ҳарирама...
🎶 Spotify: https://bit.ly/Harira-Harirama

Hello Friend!
This album comprises Megrelian-Abkhazian songs as performed by us; you will be convinced that Georgian and Abkhaz people have much in common. We have performed these songs together for 20 years now and present them to listeners with equal love. For us, this album is more than music. We hope it will warm hearts of many people on both sides of the Enguri. It is a multi-voiced and sweetly-tuned message for all generations and a blank slate for singing together.

Harira-Harirama...
🎶 Spotify: https://bit.ly/Harira-Harirama

საქართველოს კულტურისა და სპორტის სამინისტრო ფონდი ქართული გალობა / Georgian Chanting Foundation ფოლკლორის ცენტრი • Folklore Centre თბილისის ეთნოგრაფიული მუზეუმი ღია ცის ქვეშ / Tbilisi Open Air Museum

#ჰარირაჰარირამა #ҲарираҲарирама

15/01/2024

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09/01/2024

100th🔮Birthday of the great Parajanov

”In his later years, and since his death, Parajanov’s talent has been in constant danger of being over- or understated. His fascination with bric-à-brac and kitsch was perhaps a reaction against the spurious simplicity of socialist realism, but it left him open to allegations of hucksterism and naivety. Each of his mature films can be read in terms of a rising tide of Ukrainian and Transcaucasian nationalism, yet his own mixed roots and experience gave him a broader view of ‘folk’ culture.

Perhaps the best clue to his creative identity lies in his admiration for the primitive painter Niko Pirosmani (a Georgian equivalent to Henri Rousseau), about whom he made a short film in 1985: Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme (Arabeski na temu Pirosmani). Like Pirosmani, who died in poverty, Parajanov made art prodigiously, naively, magically.”

📖By Ian Christie for the British Film Institute
🔗in comments

25/12/2023

🎄Merry Christmas

20/12/2023

RIP Otar Iosseliani, arguably one of the greatest Georgian film directors 🎥

“It is clear from these fables that Iosseliani valued highly the need to be true to oneself; it is clear, too, in the immediately distinctive style of his films, with their delicacy of tone, their meandering narratives, their non-professional actors, long takes, fluid camera movements and distaste for direct statements of any kind. (One might liken his work, in certain respects, to Tati, Keaton, Vigo, even Buñuel, but in the end it feels utterly unique.)

To interview Iosseliani was not so dissimilar from watching his films; one needed patience as he responded, quietly, slowly and by a bizarrely zigzagging route that took in all manner of seemingly irrelevant digressions, until finally, usually after many minutes, he would arrive as if by magic back at the point you had originally asked him about, pulling the proverbial rabbit out of the hat to reveal that it was exactly the rabbit you had been hoping to see, after all.”

📝 By Geoff Andrew for British Film Institute
📸 Posters from Mubi

(Links in comments)

19/12/2023

🇬🇪 Georgia’s EU Candidacy

🇪🇺 In a significant milestone, Georgia has been granted the candidate status for European Union (EU) membership. This achievement underscores Georgia’s enduring Western aspirations, a dream that spans centuries and has withstood the ebb and flow of empires, unions, governments or individuals in power. It reaffirms that our ideals and values remain steadfast, transcending political transitions. It is a pledge to carry the torch passed down by those who envisioned a free and united Georgia in the larger family of the EU.

🙏 While there are undoubtedly challenging years and hard work ahead, the spark ignited by the candidacy will serve as a powerful motivator for our people and neighboring nations. It is a call to continue the noble work initiated by the Georgian visionaries of the passing centuries, of the individuals and people fighting for the independence & prosperity of Georgia and the wider region, a dedication to fulfilling the longstanding dream of our ancestors and to securing the future for the generations to come.

🌍 Together, let us continue this journey towards building a peaceful and interconnected world.


#ძალაერთობაშია

18/12/2023

RIP Legend 🎥

"The reality is that Otar Iosseliani was a poet. And probably the most mysterious filmmaker of the 20th century. His touch, as if in a state of suspension, was his way of looking, of relating to the world and whatever passed through it. [...] As if torn from history - and its infinite urgencies - his cinema remained in this suspension; a distant, abstracted, poetic world."

Read Giona A. Nazzaro's tribute to Otar Iosseliani: https://www.locarnofestival.ch/news/2023/12/otar-iosseliani-solitary-and-subversive-poet.html

📸: Otar Iosseliani with his Pardo alla carriera statue, 2013

08/12/2023

Nowhere does festive charm quite like mainland Europe. With its chilly weather and gothic sensibilities, the north of the continent is the ideal location for those searching for a perfect winter wonderland at this time of year.

27/11/2023

Georgia in focus on CBS

27/11/2023

🍷Join the Wine Weekend Getaway in Imereti!

As we indulge in all things natural wine this upcoming weekend, celebrating at the beloved Amerimeri and the newly-founded Out of the Ordinary Exhibition. Join us on this two-day trip to uncork the festive season while soaking up the warm sun of the Imeretian winter. Savor tasty special meals and explore a variety of natural wines from all over Georgia. We promise a fun and enriching experience, giving you the chance to meet passionate winemakers, connect with like-minded curious drinkers, and expand both your palate and network.

Weekend Highlights🍇Amerimeri in Tskaltubo & Out of the Ordinary in Kutaisi:

• Taste many (and we mean many) dozens of natural wines at Amerimeri.
• Explore the newly-founded wine fair: Out of the Ordinary Exhibition in Kutaisi.
• Meet the winemakers and hear their stories.
• Connect with fellow wine enthusiasts.
• Savor special meals at the specially curated places (keeping it a secret).
• Enjoy a good night’s sleep in a boutique local hotel.

When & Where: December 2-3 in Tskaltubo & Kutaisi

Don't miss this opportunity to celebrate the magic of natural wines. Whether you're a seasoned wine connoisseur or a curious newcomer, the Wine Weekend Getaway promises an unforgettable wine adventure.

📩 Reserve your spot now and let’s toast to the natural wines! DM for details and prices or write us at [email protected]

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26/11/2023

“Georgian wine is gaining in popularity. The small country exported over 140 million bottles of wine to more than 65 countries last year. 60 Minutes traveled to Georgia’s wine country to get a taste. Watch Sunday on 60 Minutes.”

60 Minutes