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Wine & food

Menu

A working list of Georgian natural wine and a kitchen menu built for a long table: qvevri amber, sharp whites, unfiltered reds, and food made to share.

Glass of Georgian natural wine at MIDI Wine Bar, BatumiSmall sharing plates and warm bread at MIDI Wine Bar, BatumiQvevri amber wine in the glass at MIDI Wine Bar, Batumi

On the wine

Georgian natural wine from small growers.

Glass125 mlBottle750 ml

K&K Tsolikouri

Imereti · white · qvevri

1875

Gabriel's Wine Tanini

Kartli · amber · dry

1980

Gottsa Chinuri

Kartli · bright white · qvevri

1880

So Pro Madze Tsolikouri

Imereti · white · fresh acidity

1770

Mamastan Rkatsiteli-Mtsvane

Kakheti · amber · textured

—80

Ori Marani Saperavi

Kartli · red · natural

—100

Starters & dips

Bread, spreads and small bites to begin with.

Italian sun-dried tomatoes

100 g

14

Brusketta: roast beef, aioli

14

Roast beef tonnato

20

Warm local bread, Kakhetian oil

100 g

6

Artichokes, sun-dried tomatoes, olives, bread

100 g

20

Chicken liver pate

served with orange confiture and warm bread · 100 g

21

Nuts

100 g

13

Hummus

served with pickles and local bread · 100 g

18

Italian meat · 100 g

Cured meats, sliced thin.

Prosciutto

32

Brusketta: prosciutto & caramelized onion

16

Olives · 100 g

Marinated olives, three ways.

Green Greek

17

Turkish sun-dried

13

Mix

15

Antipasti

Single portions, served by the piece.

Walnuts

7

Artichokes

7

Sun-dried tomatoes

7

Green olives

7

Sun-dried green olives

6

Kakhetian sunflower oil

3

Tartin

3

Hazelnuts

8

Shalauri cheese, white

11

Shalauri cheese with charcoal

13

Telavi cheese

11

Shalo cheese, aged

11

Prosciutto

17

Marletta cheeses

Small craft cheeses from the Kakheti region.

Telavi

38

Shalauri white

33

Shalauri with charcoal

35

Shalo aged

35

Mix of four types

42

Soup of the day

Chef’s daily selection.

Vegan borsch

15

Norwegian fish soup

15

Soup with meatballs

15

Main courses

Warm plates from the kitchen.

Quiche: chicken, mushrooms

16

Quiche: salmon, broccoli

18

Chicken sandwich

28

Roast beef, grilled vegetables

28

Chicken cutlets, mashed potatoes

29

Pasta with truffle

27

Salads

Fresh leaves and seasonal vegetables.

Vegetable salad, herbs, Kakhetian oil

17

Roast beef salad, black pepper dressing

25

Warm chicken salad, roasted broccoli, carrots, pepper

22

Desserts

House-made, to finish.

Basque cheesecake

13

Panna cotta, salted caramel

11
On natural wineThe fairs where these wines surface

Natural wine is less a style than an agreement among growers. The makers behind it tend to belong to small associations of natural winemakers, held together by a single principle: nothing sprayed in the vineyard, nothing added in the cellar, and a wine that should taste of the ground it grew in.

The rarest of these are made in lots of a few hundred bottles and never reach a shop shelf. They surface instead at the natural-wine fairs — events like London’s RAW WINE or Tbilisi’s New Wine Festival, where a single vintage is opened for one weekend before it is gone. Much of the Georgian wine in Batumi on this list was found exactly there.

It is also why the list refuses to sit still: a grape that defined the spring can be gone by autumn, replaced by the next small lot worth the journey. The wine in Batumi worth seeking has always moved this way, long before the supermarket aisle.