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An old winery in Vera with restaurants and bars

The winery on Petriashvili Street, in the old Vera district, was built between 1894 and 1896 to a design by Tbilisi's chief architect Alexander Ozerov, with money from the brandy magnate and patron David Sarajishvili. Its façades deliberately echo Georgian churches: decorative arches, carved cornices and window sills, and in plan the building looks like two intersecting three-aisled basilicas. Under the Russian Empire and in Soviet times wine was made and aged here.

Then the factory stood closed for decades. From 2013 a new owning company set out to revive it, the building was listed as a cultural heritage monument, and in 2017 it opened to everyone as a city space: courtyards, restaurants, bars and cafés, a flower market and an open-air summer cinema. Traces of the past are everywhere: old barrels, Soviet mosaics, embossed metal doors.

The soul of the factory lies underground. Two floors of cellars under pointed brick vaults hold the oenotheque, a collection gathered over more than a century. It reopened after restoration in May 2026, and at the opening the prime minister said it holds more than twenty thousand collectible bottles, among them wines over two hundred years old and European-style Georgian wines from the 1890s.