A man tastes the traditional alcoholic drink Chacha during the annual Chacha Festival in Telavi, Kakheti region of Georgia November 5, 2022. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze 

A woman wears national clothes during the annual Chacha Festival dedicated to the traditional alcoholic drink Chacha in Telavi, Kakheti region of Georgia November 5, 2022. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze 

A participant grills kebab during the annual Chacha Festival dedicated to the traditional alcoholic drink Chacha in Telavi, Kakheti region of Georgia November 5, 2022. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze 

Georgia's newly elected President Salome Zurabishvili embraces to Patriarch Ilia II during inauguration ceremony in Telavi, Georgia, December 16, 2018. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/Pool 

A former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives to the inauguration ceremony of the Georgia's newly elected President Salome Zurabishvili (not pictured) in Telavi, Georgia, December 16, 2018. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/Pool 

A former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives to the inauguration ceremony of the Georgia's newly elected President Salome Zurabishvili (not pictured) in Telavi, Georgia, December 16, 2018. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/Pool 

Georgia's outgoing President Georgy Margvelashvili attends inauguration ceremony of the newly elected President Salome Zurabishvili (not pictured) in Telavi, Georgia, December 16, 2018. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/Pool 

Georgia's newly elected President Salome Zurabishvili speaks during inauguration ceremony in Telavi, Georgia, December 16, 2018. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/Pool 

Georgia's newly elected President Salome Zurabishvili arrives to the inauguration ceremony in Telavi, Georgia, December 16, 2018. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/Pool 

Georgia's newly elected President Salome Zurabishvili speaks during inauguration ceremony in Telavi, Georgia, December 16, 2018. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/Pool 

Georgia's newly elected President Salome Zurabishvili speaks during inauguration ceremony in Telavi, Georgia, December 16, 2018. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/Pool 

Georgia's newly elected President Salome Zurabishvili arrives to the inauguration ceremony in Telavi, Georgia, December 16, 2018. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/Pool 

Georgia's newly elected President Salome Zurabishvili speaks during the inauguration ceremony in Telavi, Georgia, December 16, 2018. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/Pool 

Georgia's newly elected President Salome Zurabishvili attends inauguration ceremony in Telavi, Georgia, December 16, 2018. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze 

Tuvalu's Prime Minister Willy Telavi addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York September 24, 2011. REUTERS/Chip East (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) 

Bottles of Georgian wine are seen at the Teliani Valley wine factory in the town of Telavi, some 150 km (93 miles) east of Tbilisi, September 29, 2010. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (GEORGIA - Tags: AGRICULTURE FOOD) 

Bottles of Georgian wine are seen at the Teliani Valley wine factory in the town of Telavi, some 150 km (93 miles) east of Tbilisi, September 29, 2010. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (GEORGIA - Tags: AGRICULTURE) 

Bottles of Georgian wine are seen on a production line at the Teliani Valley wine factory in the town of Telavi, some 150 km (93 miles) east of Tbilisi, September 29, 2010. Wine exports rose 25 percent this year compared to 2009, the country's Prime Minister Nikoloz Gilauri said on Tuesday. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (GEORGIA - Tags: AGRICULTURE BUSINESS) 

Georgian presidential candidate Mikhail Saakashvili meets supporters in the town of Telavi, some 150km (93 miles) east of Tbilisi as he tours the country campaigning for next year's presidential election December 10, 2007. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/Pool (GEORGIA) 

A Georgian specialist holds up a glass of wine at a vineyard in Telavi in eastern Georgia, April 18, 2006. [The media are emphatically negative about a ban on the imports of Georgian wine to Russia, writing that Russia is gradually resorting to all levers of economic pressure on Georgia, RIA Novosti news agency reported.] 

A Georgian specialist holds up a glass of wine at a vineyard in Telavi in eastern Georgia, April 18, 2006. [The media are emphatically negative about a ban on the imports of Georgian wine to Russia, writing that Russia is gradually resorting to all levers of economic pressure on Georgia, RIA Novosti news agency reported.] 

A Georgian specialist holds up a glass of wine at a vineyard in Telavi in eastern Georgia, April 18, 2006. The media are emphatically negative about a ban on the imports of Georgian wine to Russia, writing that Russia is gradually resorting to all levers of economic pressure on Georgia, RIA Novosti news agency reported. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze 

A Georgian specialist holds up a glass of wine at a vineyard in Telavi in eastern Georgia, April 18, 2006. The media are emphatically negative about a ban on the imports of Georgian wine to Russia, writing that Russia is gradually resorting to all levers of economic pressure on Georgia, RIA Novosti news agency reported. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze 

- PHOTO TAKEN 25SEP05 - Villager Gocha Natroshvili empties a basket of black grapes during a traditional harvest in village of Vazisubani in Georgia's Kakheti region, some 120 km (75 miles) to the east from capital Tbilisi, Georgia, September 25, 2005. Georgian wine drinkers are used to headaches, but now grape growers have them too. This autumn's bountiful grape crop is bad news for many winegrowers in eastern Georgia, where people are finding it harder and harder to sell their produce. Photo taken September 25, 2005. 

A worker removes bottles from the production line of a winery in the town of Telavi in Georgia's Kakheti region, some 150 km (93 miles) east from the capital Tbilisi, September 26, 2005. Georgian wine drinkers are used to headaches, but now grape growers have them too. This autumn's bountiful grape crop is bad news for many winegrowers in eastern Georgia, where people are finding it harder and harder to sell their produce. To match feature Georgia-Wine. Picture taken September 26, 2005. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili 

Georgia's State Minister Avtandil Dzhorbenadze (L) visits Zurab
Valashvili, a villager wounded during what Tblisi said was a Russian
cross-border air raid at Ilto gorge, in a hospital in the town of
Telavi, 200 km east of Tbilisi, August 23, 2002. Russia and its former
ally Georgia began a fresh war of words on Friday after Tbilisi accused
Moscow of killing an elderly villager in the cross-border air raid
which the Russian military flatly denied. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

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