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On February 23, 2018, at 19:30 the Georgian Art Palace hosted an event with Georgian brand of tea – “Gurieli”. Event was dedicated to the new project – “Gurieli from Rustaveli’s Country”.

The project aims to represent Georgia as a host country, a cultural heritage and tea export potential at Frankfurt Book Fair in 2018.

The collector’s edition "Gurieli from Rustaveli’s Country" consists of nine species of tea. There are three new varieties: Meadow Chamomile, Snow Rose and Meskhetian Nettle, created by experienced experts of "Gurieli", added to the familiar traditional black and traditional green tea, earl gray, jasmine blossom, alpine berries and wild mint.

 The Georgian and English versions of the collector’s edition were presented on February 23, and the German version will be added to the book festival, which is currently being processed.

Each variety of Georgian version of tea is packed with works of such famous painters as: Petre Otskheli, Pirosmani, Mikhail Zichi, Giorgi Eristavi, Mikheil Chikovani, Gregory Gagarin, Boris Yohansen. One of the species was designed by famous filmmaker Mikheil Chiaureli by Shota Rustaveli. The famous fresco of Jvari Monastery is used by Giorgi Kalandia, Director of the Palace of Arts.

The English version was completely designed by Mihai Zichi’s  famous reproductions created for "The Knight in the Panther's Skin".

This kind of project is being implemented by the Art Palace and Georgian brand of tea "Gurieli" for the first time and it is worth noting that with the promotion of national cultural heritage and the export potential of Georgian production, the main purpose of the project is to assist the art palace as a state cultural institution. Therefore, some part of the amount of money received from the sale of tea species from the "Gurieli from Rustaveli’s Country" collection will be transferred to the Art Palace as a charity.