Eastern Georgia along the Alazani valley, where most of the country's wine is made, including amber wines fermented with skins in buried clay qvevri, a method inscribed by UNESCO in 2013.
The map shows the official outline with relief, 3D terrain, slope and exposure, climate and soil.
Key facts
Type
PDO (Appellation of Origin, Sakpatenti)
Area
1,134,877 ha registered outline
Centre
41.8098° N, 45.7246° E
Legal basis
Appellations of origin registered with Sakpatenti under the Law of Georgia on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications. Most are village micro-zones, shown here as points at the namesake village.
Outline: Built from the administrative units that contain the area. The legal boundary follows other lines (roads, rivers, farms or altitude), so the real area is smaller.
Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.
Terrain
Elevation
88–4,123 m
Mean elevation
943 m
Measured over the whole outline on 219,405 elevation cells of about 228 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.