Wine
One of those evenings I will speak to you in a language of wine, because wine is incapable of lying
At GERI METAI, our family garden nurtures 15 distinct rowan varieties. Their fruit becomes our pure rowan wines - crafted only from rowan, with no other fruit or berries - yet each bottling tastes remarkably different, shaped by the variety behind it.
These are truly vinous wines: complex aromas and flavors unfold like in fine grape wine, while oak-barrel maturation adds layers of aroma, nuance, and depth. Naturally high in tannins, rowan - much like the grape - can yield styles with either firmer or gentler tannins, elegantly completing the palate.
Awards:
2025:
International Wine and Spirits Competition (London) - silver and bronze medals
Wine Expo Poland (Warsaw) - 2 bronze medals
Lithuanian Wine and Mead Championship (Vilnius) - 2 silver medals, 5 bronze medals, awards: Best Rowan Wine, Best Fruit Wine from Licensed Winery, Best Dry Rowan Wine
2024:
International Wine and Spirits Competition (London) - bronze medal
Lithuanian Wine and Mead Championship (Vilnius) - 2 bronze medals and Best Rowan Wine award
2023:
Lithuanian Wine and Mead Championship (Vilnius) - 2 bronze medals and Best Rowan Wine award
Rowan Wine
Guelder Rose Wine
From GERI METAI garden, we craft guelder rose (viburnum) berry wine - a truly distinctive expression. Guelder rose’s hallmark note - thanks to naturally occurring valeric acid - carries through into the wine, giving it a singular aroma and flavor. We age it for at least two years, allowing any bitterness to soften, the acidity to mellow, and the wine to come into balance and structure.
This is a bottle for curious palates - something rare, surprising, and memorable. At several Christmas markets it’s been one of our most popular wines. If you’d like to delight guests who think they’ve tried everything, this is the one.
Even sommeliers who usually steer clear of viburnum wines have remarked: “I usually can’t drink viburnum wine, but yours is clean and refreshingly fruity - this one I can indeed try.”
Or, as our son-in-law affectionately puts it: “the wine that smells like Grandma’s cupboard” - and who doesn’t have a little valerian tucked away there?
