Winery Khareba owns an unique and rare wine cellar located in Kvareli, in the Alazani Valley. Carved inside the Caucasus mountains and opened in 1962 for the OIV World Congress, the cellar/tunnel is 7,7 kilometers long. The best wines of the Kakheti region have been stored and aged here for decades. The tunnel preserves a natural temperature of 12-14° Celcius with a humidity rate of 70%; the ideal conditions for wine preservation. Tunnel consists of 2 main and 13 interconnecting 500 meter tunnels. The total length of the construction is 7.7 kilometers. There are two purposes of the tunnel : Tourism and winemaking. The visitor can see more than 25 000 bottles of Winery Khareba premium wines aging there and buy some of them available at unique and amazing inside shop. As a matter of fact, in 2011, Winery Khareba has developed a wine touristic infrastructure around the tunnel: a large recreational park with river and old Qvevris, a beautiful old georgian style water mill, a traditional georgian bread bakery in “Tones” (clay ovens), Chacha distillation, a traditional press called “Satsnakheli”, a trout-filled lake, “Patskhas” lodges (small traditional houses) and a very large and typical stone fire grill. Guests are provided with the opportunity to taste more than 40 kinds of Winery Khareba wines, bake their own bread, participate to Chacha making process, prepare “Churchkhela” (sweet peanuts and wine made georgian snack) on the “Mtsvadi” (local name for BBQ), participate to harvest and foot pressing. Touristic complex also includes premium class restaurant “Saperavi”, which is located in the mountain and is connected to the tunnel accessible by elevator. Restaurant can accommodate 300 guests and offers ther best Georgian cuisine. The restaurant harmoniously confluents with nature (there is a waterfall next to it), a beautiful garden with perennial trees, a mountain river, tower and veranda, from where pictures can be taken with open view on Alazani Valley and Kvareli vineyards.
