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Hi everybody,
This picture is taken at the yard of "Shavnabada" monastery, you can see this church in my galery "The church I go every Sunday".
This is a very special monastrey, they make their own wine, honey, cheese, they give shelter to narcotic and drug abused people, to those who have problems it life and help them.
These pitchers from cley (Qvevri; Churi) are used in Georgia (mainly in Western Georgia-Imerety)to keep wine. The pitchers are burried in the ground so that only round upper marge (in the picture covered with plastic) is awailable to see. As they are made out of cley, they can be kept only in a special kind of soil which is rich in cley itself and you can find this kind of soil mainly in western Georgia.
But the most interesting thing is how Qvevri is washed every year in autumn before peasant pours wine into it. In every village they choose thinnest man who goes inside the pitcher and washes it from inside. How it looks you can see on the picture of "Washing wine pitcher" by mchedeli in TE
As this picture was taken in 2005, these pitchers are long time back kept in Georgian soil and they are full of uncomparable "Shavnabada" wine, any doubts? come and taset it :)