Kristian Brask Thomsen, AKA the Ambassador of Pleasure, is a professional gourmand, a guy who figured out how to make a living eating good food and drinking good wine. His PR firm represents Michelin star chefs and restaurants I’ll never be able to afford. This ought to make him a food snob but he’s no snoot and is especially down to earth; so much so in fact that he rates Veliaminov as one of his favorite restaurants in Georgia.

Nothing better than a platter of khashlama after meeting a renegade Kakhetian tornado It took the tornado fifteen minutes to hit us from the moment it first appeared. We had just come down the Abano pass from Tusheti on the perilous high-wire referred to as a “road” and were feeling quite secure on flat land. You guys hungry or do you want to see Alaverdi, the holiest place in Kakheti? We'll have the best khashlama afterwards. Sure! We parked in the lot next to the Badagoni c

I want to say that like so many first meetings in Georgia, I met John Wurdeman at a supra, but the truth is I met him a couple hours...