Extreme Cellars: Katskhi Pillar, Georgia

When doing research for the Georgian wine book, I came across many wondrous things in this little country in the Caucasus but one of the most fascinating was the Katskhi pillar. Located near the Northern Imeretian village of the same name, it’s a tall limestone pillar (shocking, right?) that sticks up some 40m out of the valley and of all things had a small monastery on the top of it. And what do Georgian monasteries usually always have in them? Yes, a wine cellar. The photos, like the one above […]