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VinePair interviews sommelier Jenna Isaacs on her favorite wines during the quarantine, her wine recommendations for consumers, and her interest in wines from Georgia. 

With travel restrictions lifting in some places during the summer, Forbes explores the best European destinations for tourist safety and leisure, including the breathtaking Georgian cities Tbilisi and Batumi. Both tourist hotspots are some of the safest destinations during the global pandemic at this time and are known for the rich cultural and cuisine experience…

Age-old winemaking styles are being revived today as producers and consumers alike are enjoying ‘genre-expanding’ natural wines.

Georgia hopes to be recognized as a safe destination after the country’s apparent COVID-19 success, welcoming tourists in July. 2019 proved to be the nation’s peak of tourism at over nine million; the country reopens its borders to offer visitors the same sweeping sceneries and cultural richness.

Culinary Backstreets details the strain Georgian wineries are taking during the pandemic, as well as their plans to bounce back in the coming months. With tourism dwindled and safety restrictions in place, very few wineries and restaurant establishments remain open and smaller family wineries suffer.

The methods involved in natural wine making date back thousands of years in the Republic of Georgia, whose people are credited not just with the birth of wine, but many of these low-intervention methods, including skin-contact wine.

New York Times explores the history and origins of Georgia’s unique silk-making traditions and shares the stories of present-day Georgians working to keep the craft alive.

The best examples of these white wines, made with red techniques, are striking and wonderful. Still some dismiss this ancient wine, now trendy once more.

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.”