Washington Post shares some of the world’s best drinking traditions for virtual happy hours during quarantine. Games and customs from Iceland, Georgia, Mexico, and all over the globe uplift citizens staying at home during the pandemic.

“Certainly the history is a selling point. I would say it’s a feature. You know, you’re drinking history. The Georgians have a tremendous amount of pride – pride in having survived, pride in having one of the 14 original alphabets, and pride in their various traditions and holding to them…But history doesn’t have a flavor.…

“Wine is a product derived from the land, and it’s one of the very few things that you can export that really encapsulates that,” she says. “Drinking it allows you to empathize with people that you may never meet, or a country where you may not ever physically set foot.”

For many, the natural wine boom might seem like it came from nowhere. It might even seem like a fad. But the Republic of Georgia, home to the oldest evidence of winemaking in the world, has hosted a fierce debate over the future of low-intervention winemaking techniques for centuries. Georgia’s traditional qvevri method was declared part of the Intangible Cultural…

Restoration of rural Georgian convent now holds a steadfast community of multiskilled nuns, where the nuns offer schooling for local Armenian community schoolchildren while also working in a variety of crafts from cheesemaking to textiles to agriculture.

Georgian athlete Zaza Pachulia turns towards communal outreach through supporting and connecting with San Carlos’s Georgian restaurant Tamari. Tamari owner Shalva Dzotsenidze shares authentic Georgian cuisine with struggling and sick members of the Bay Area during COVID-19.

Fortune explores the significance of Georgia’s famous Khachapuri cheese bread and how the public’s consumption of it is studied to mark economic changes and inflation. In times of the pandemic, Georgians are adjusting their culinary habits.

“In truth, drinking alone is not a hardship; it is still a privilege and a luxury. Wine has been going strong for over 8,000 years. Even if, right now, it fails to deliver at full sensorial capacity, I can still contemplate the people who made it, the vintage they made it in, and the natural…

While there is still some debate about the origins of wine, most scholars agree that vine domestication dates back to at least 4000BC and probably spread from the area around the Caucasus Mountains (modern-day Georgia) gradually westward, traipsing through Phoenicia (modern-day Lebanon), Greece and Rome before making its way north and west. For an especially…

Culture Trip offers some of the best cities off the beaten path for when travel restrictions are lifted, encouraging travelers to enjoy the cultural richness and famous cuisines of places such as Tbilisi and Gothenburg.