David Sarajishvili
Was born in Tbillisi on octomber 28, 1848
David`s Father – Zaqaria Sarajishvili
David`s Mother – Elizabeth Savaneli
He studied at Tbilisi Classical Gymnasium #1 and then at the
university in St. Petersburg. Later he pursued his studies in Germany – First
in Munich and then at the university of Heidelberg which he graduated from in
1871 as Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Chemistry. Between the years of
1872-1877, David studied agriculture in Germany. In 1878-1880 he travelled to
France to explore and learn winemaking.
In 1880 he married Catherine
Poraqishvili . Sarajishvili Family didn’t have a direct heir. But it was not a
tragedy for Sarajishvili, because he thought that every child brought up with a
patriotic spirit and ready to serve the country for its better future could be
considered as his own child.
Industrial Activities
In 1884 he
founded the first brandy distillery in Tbilisi. Soon the Sarajishvili Company
comprised 5 alcohol rectification:
·
1
Vodka
·
1
Liquor
·
7
Brandy Distilleries
As well as numerous Warehouses in Tbilisi, Moscow, St.
Petersburg and many other cities. David is considered To be the founder of
wine-brandy Production using classical technology not only in Georgia but
throughout the then Russian Empire.
In the 90s of the 19-th century the Sarajishvili Company was
producing nearly 50 types of alcoholic drinks.
Such as:
Ø Vodka
Ø Cognac
Ø Rum
Ø Champagne
Ø Grand Champagne
In 1913 the Sarajishvili Company was honored with the status
of the official supplier to the Emperor`s Court.
well. I think it will be quite interesting to say some words
about the production of cognac, because
wine brandy production is a sort of an art.
Compared with Georgia wine history accounting tens of
thousand years, Georgian wine brandy was born a bit later in the 19-th century.
The drink gets maturity and develops in an oak barrel and
finally gets completed in a bottle.
Process takes minimum 3 years and maximum centuries of times.
Wine brandy is a strong alcohol drink produced out of white
wine.
1 litre of cognac is produced out of 9 litres of wine.
It needs double distillation, second time distillation is
called bonne chaffe.
The process lasts for 12 hours.
The next step is aging in oak barrels.
Today the production of cognac is continued by Join-stock
company “David Sarajishvili and Eniseli”
.
Vintage Cognacs of the Sarajishvili Company
" Sarajishvili 3*** ” 3 years of aging
" Sarajishvil 5*** ” 5 years of aging
“Sarajishvil VS”
7 years of
aging
"Sarajishvil VSOP”
10 years of aging
“Eniseli ” 14 years of aging
“Sarajishvil XO” 18-20 years of aging
THE BOTTLES ARE PTODUCED IN FRANCE
. THE PRICE OF THE BOTTLE IS NEARLY 400 EUROS AND AS FOR THE DRINK ITSELF IT
COSTS 2500 EUROS. EACH BOTTLE IS numbered and is impossible to be falsified..As
for cognac ‘Eniseli’it was produced by Vakhtang Tsitsishvili who used to be the
main technologist of the Sarajishvili company.The limited edition ( 200 bottles
) of sarajishvili 155 was dedicated to the 155-th anniversary of Sarajishvili.
As for XX century only 300 bottles were made.
The Sarajishvili brandy was awarded with
109 Gold
44 Silver
And 11 Bronze medals
SARAJISHVILI
house, which is also called ‘SARAJISHVILI NUMBER OR EUROPE’, CURRENTLY
REPRESENTS the WRITERS’ HOUSE. It is a
well-known fact that the prominent writers and public figure such as... used to
gather there and hold literary evenings.and they were discussing important political
problems. So the house served like a
parliament.
There are some interesting facts about Sarajishvili.
King’s army
soldier was killed during the riots in Guria. The king issued the order to
destroy Guria.Ilia Chavchavadze , who
often visited David Sarajishvili asked him to appeal to the viceroy Golitsini
with the request to stop the army which had
already been situated near Kutaisi . Golitsini owed a lot of money to
Sarajishvili and David asked him in return of this debt to retreat the troops .
Now I will switch on a footage which shows us
the above mentioned historical
fact .
David
Sarajishvili spent vast amounts of money on restoration and reconstruction of
oldest Georgian monuments. He saved from loss a lot of Georgia’s religious and
material treasures.
Sarajishvili’s name is connected to the construction of Kashueti church. He paid a of money to the
famous Italian architect and asked him to follow the traditions of Georgian architecture. The architect, with the advice
of Sarajishvili visited Samtavisi church
. The wonderful sight became a source of inspiration for building Kashveti. We
have got another video which depicts
this event.
Sarajishvili
was not only an industrialist but a philanthropist as well.
David’s
fellows were...... They held Sarajishvili’s fellowship which enabled some of them to
continue their studies abroad. David has played significant role and hugely
contributed to establishment and development of various national and public
institutions such were historical and drama societies, Tbilisi State
University, musical schools, Georgian literacy promotion society etc
The biggest
part of his possessions and property was transferred to the country’s ownership according to his
last will.
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