Ar Areni - Grapevine cultivation, culinary class and wine tasting

The hosts of this experience are Svetlana and Gevorg, who started winemaking during the 1990s. They share a similar story with the majority of families living in late-Soviet Areni and are helping to keep Areni’s local winemaking heritage alive. As the wine factories refused to take their grapes, they decided to make their own wine to not lose their entire harvest. At the time, they couldn’t imagine that they’d become one of the village’s first homemade winemakers who would host tourists and introduce local wine and the story of Areni village as the homeland of wine production. This married couple is full of warm hospitality and stands apart with their ability to learn and innovate, combined with their inquisitive minds and an incessant desire to build better lives together.