The objective to select varieties showing a wider range of phenological variability and genetic traits, apparently not represented in the germplasm of Western Europe, makes the Georgian varieties a considerable background for grapevine breeding programs aimed to extend the ripening time in a viticultural area and consequently reducing possible berry summer stresses and grapes quality impairment.
The owner and her daughter tended to us solicitously, as traditional Georgian folk music played in the background.
Still lurking in the background: a puffed-up Georgian squarehead who conducts himself like a latter-day Herodotus and a fiery Texan goblin who wants to abolish the Federal Reserve.
Reporters covering the conflict have been showered daily with emails providing news, contact details, mobile phone numbers of officials, video footage, background material, and tele-conference access to Georgians from Saakashvili down.
As we remarked in the Background section, this study is essential in the Georgian context, because no amount of public opinion findings from other countries has as much currency with Georgian decision-makers as findings from Georgia have.
But it forced families from different backgrounds, who spoke different languages — Armenian, Kurdish, Greek, Georgian, Macedonian — to hide their identities.
Shenako is overlooked by Mount Diklo and contains a series of buildings of Georgian folk architecture, such as the old church of the Holy Trinity, seen in the background.
The owners, Louise Oldfield and Liam Nabb, who have a background in music and graphic design, moved here from London, tempted by the town's affordable Georgian housing.
