New Wine Festival

Held each second Saturday of May at Mtatsminda Park in Tbilisi, the New Wine Festival gives visitors the chance to taste hundreds of new wines from the previous year's harvest, meeting the winemakers, sommeliers and international importers who make them directly. Alongside Rtveli and Tbilisoba, it stands as one of Georgia's most well-organised showcases of the country's deep and enduring relationship with wine.

The festival unfolds across weeks rather than a single day, offering extensive wine tastings alongside Georgian dances, traditional street food and handmade souvenirs, with dedicated games and activities for children making it a genuinely family-friendly event. Entry is entirely free, though the festival's popularity means producers sometimes run out of wine before the event concludes — a good incentive to arrive early if a particular winery's offering is the goal.

Given the New Wine Festival falls in spring, just as Georgia's vineyards begin waking up from winter, it offers a natural counterpart to autumn's harvest-focused Rtveli — a chance to taste the fruits of the previous year's labour just as the next cycle of growth is getting underway.