The 2004 Geoffrey Roberts Award, a travel bursary worth at least £3,000 (nearly $6,000) was won by 31 year-old Shalva Khetsuriani, of the eponymous Georgian winemaking family, who spent the 2004 vintage traveling at full speed around France absorbing information and techniques on modern winemaking and vine-growing with amazing enthusiasm and stamina. His report, or rather that compiled by his invaluable translator who accompanied him on his travels in Bordeaux, Chablis and Paris, appears verbatim...
