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Is Bina 37 Georgia's most bizarre winery?

Does it make sense to install 43 qvevris on the 8th floor of a Tbilisi apartment building? Zura Natroshvili thinks so.

Simon J Woolf
Jul 10, 2017
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Zura and his wife stand in their Marani, with Tbilisi's night sky in the background

"Sorry, but this is absolutely nuts!", says one member of our group during a visit to restaurant/apartment/winery Bina 37, and he's merely stating what everyone else is thinking. We're talking with Zura Natroshvili, a medical doctor turned traditional winemaker. Well, almost traditional. Most winemakers don't install their cellars on the 8th floor of a city residential block.

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