Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir A friend brings me a heavy bottle from Georgia, and the first thing it teaches us is that weight can be a message. When I pour the wine, the color is almost opaque, purple-black with a stained magenta rim, and it becomes a clue that leads straight into one of the oldest winemaking traditions on Earth: Georgian qvevri wine, fermented and aged in an egg-shaped clay vessel buried in the ground. From there, I take you back to archaeology and scripture, b...