Evenings at MIDIMasterclasses · tastings · photography

Events that keep the table talking.

Some nights are for wine. Some are for art, images, and a room full of people who want to think out loud. MIDI hosts masterclasses on contemporary art, guided Georgian wine tastings, and photography evenings with a glass within reach.

Modern art masterclass evening at MIDI Wine Bar, Batumi — 01

Georgian natural wine tasting flight at MIDI Wine Bar, Batumi — 02

Guests at a small seated event at MIDI Wine Bar, Batumi — 03

Photography evening at MIDI Wine Bar, Batumi — 04

Intimate table set for an evening at MIDI Wine Bar, Batumi — 05

Modern art masterclasses

Small guided evenings on contemporary artists, materials, context, and how to actually look at a work.

Wine tastings

Flights by region, grape, qvevri style, or producer, served slowly enough to talk through every glass.

Photography nights

Informal sessions about images, composition, visual memory, and the way a city changes after dark.

On the qvevriA short history of the qvevri

The qvevri is an egg-shaped clay vessel, lined with beeswax and buried to its neck in the earth. Wine has been made in it across Georgia for around eight thousand years — older than the pyramids — and in 2013 UNESCO entered the method into its list of intangible human heritage.

Underground, the clay holds a steady cool while the wine ferments on its own skins, seeds and stems. White grapes treated this way turn deep amber and take on a tannic grip closer to black tea than to ordinary white wine — the style the world now calls orange wine, and Georgia simply calls wine.

A wine tasting in Batumi built around the qvevri is the shortest way to read it: the colour, the texture, and the faint trace of clay behind the fruit. It is one of several formats on the calendar, and the one that tends to stay with people.