Back to the
road. A few hundred meters further, we meet Guivi Basilashvili. He
brings us to an orchard of 30 hectares, north of the main road in the valley.
It has been planted a few years ago with hundreds of pomegranate bushes. There
are apparently 8 or 9 varieties, several of which being referred to as
“Gandjauri”. The other ones are unnamed. Many of them have hard seeds and several
ones have a typical raspberry flavour.
There is also
a white one that is pretty but a little bit tasteless. Neither sweet nor acid. Also, there are no dark pomegranates in
this orchard. We have a long chat with Guivi about pomegranate transformation,
including seed oil. The valley is just magnificent and our host extremely
friendly.
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