I was invited by my friend to a wine-tasting at Decant – not sure what to expect but was excited to explore and see this wine bar

https://www.instagram.com/decant.wine

The wine ended up being MARNUVA WINES and it was probably the BEST wine tasting ive ever had!!

https://www.instagram.com/marnuvawines?igsh=aTZtc2o4NmNjOWI=

Hidden in an alley way off the popular Saryan Street, we saw the wine barrel immediately and ran on over to try our first wine

… ummmm wine overload!

There were soooo many wines to choose from!

Many different brands which I havent heard of and more things added to my list of things to do and try in Armenia lol

We had a look around and explored the different wines and decided on a glass of dry red to try before our tasting
The menu if you choose to buy something and eat while having a glass
setting up the back room for the tasting

MARNUVA WINES

I love these guys story!

They did some research, went around Armenia to old homes and bought old wine Karas’ from the villagers and this is what they make their wines in now, the Karas’ just arent made the same as they used to be, so their wines have a very special taste – and you can definitely taste the difference!

Karas usually hold around 1200 litres the larger ones and the smaller around 300 litres so was very difficult for them to go around Armenia and find and transport them back

We tried 8 wines – 2 whites / 2 rose / light orange / dark amber / 1 red / 1 pomegranate

Usually, I always end up liking the dark red wines but THIS TIME… I was so confused because they were ALL amazing as each other!!

Suren is the humble owner whose hobby it is to make these organic wines, him and his wife Karine basically do everything themselves and they dont have much automation
We started off with the whites and they were lovely!

Its an organic wine so even with the amount of wines, it didnt give us that drunk feeling

Also the smells of all the wines were so floral and strong and you could actually smell the aromas in the wine

We tried a pomegrante wine which was incredible and actually tasted like pomegranate and not just sugar which is usually loaded into the wine, it really was a treat to have some

Wine 7 – this was one of my favs, the Reserve red “karmarahyoot” grapes
I was impressed by ALL these wines!
You can tell he loves what he does and is very passionate about being different from the other wine makers and keeping the wine as organic and clean as possible

He experiments a lot with his wines and once left wine out in the Karas in the cold to freeze and test to see what the wine out be like – the cold also makes the alcohol levels higher

We did end up buying the deep amber wine 11,000amd – there were only a handful of bottles there for sales and we got the only amber one

Ended up being a very interesting night, no expectations at all and it went above and beyond, a small wine bar, an unknown wine maker made an AWESOME night!

YEREVAN – 12AUG26