Georgians have a special method of making wine in stone presses and then storing it in clay vessels sunk in the ground. Even today many houses in the country have a wine cellar - the so-called "marani" with a wine-press and underground clay jars. These wine jars are called "kvevris" and their presence is betrayed only by the stone slabs with which they are sealed. Unlike the European way of wine-making which implies the separation of juice from grapes after pressing, Georgians keep juice and grapes together for some time before separating them. This is what gives Georgian wine its special flavour and strength.

For the mankind everything began with pottery clay, i.e. a mixture of 2 types of clay - china and cutty clay. The first gave the pottery a uniform structure and a smooth surface and the latter - strength.

The invention of pottery clay was followed by a potter's wheel and a pottery furnace - a pottery baking furnace where baking was performed with hot gases liberated during fuel combustion.

For a long time in Georgian wine-making special crocks - kveri were used. Crock is a vessel made of special clay with consequent baking and hardening. Wines "born" in these crocks were distinguished by extraordinary richness of flavors and useful microelements.

To treat wine in the present-day wine-making, even special - bentonite - clay is used. Bentonites, fine-porous clays, consisting mainly of minerals, have a high cohesive ability, adsorption and catalytic activity and are intended for acceleration of clarification of must and wine materials and stabilize wine against protein dimness. Bentonite increases the biological stability of wines due to adsorption of microorganisms (yeasts, bacteria). Bentonite clays of Georgia are regarded to be the best clays all over the world.

Clay has a lot of healing properties. Among them the following are established:
Ability to absorb diseases.
Antibacterial action.
Solar magnetism.

Thousand year-long history of using ceramic vessels and hundreds of millions of people who drank wine from them is undoubtedly the evidence of ecological purity of vessels made of clay, bringing health and longevity for people and a desirable cool in hot days when drinking wine from these vessels.

The Georgian manufacturing company "Kakhetian Traditional Wine-Making" using intensively crocks for keeping and bringing the best properties of Georgian wine to their connoisseurs.

Using a classical formula of the composition of the earthenware material tried for centuries and a unique design of a vessel combining ancient traditional and modern forms, the Company "Kakhetian Traditional Wine-Making" was awarded with 23 gold, silver and bronze medals at international competitions for high wine-making standards and quality of their wines.