Wine Tour of Shemakhi - Visiting Baku for the first time mainly for the F1. Little did I realize that Azerbaijan has its own wine regions! So my wife and I arranged a nice Saturday trip with Nasimi Wine Tours. Was perfectly organized from the hotel pickup to the actual tour and wine tasting. Highly recommended and will use again!

Exceptional Wine Tour - My wife and I did the organic wine tour to the Shamaki Winery. We were lucky enough to enjoy a day out with Nasimi, his wife and gorgeous little daughter. During the trip there, in a comfortable minivan, he provided us with a lot of information on wine making in Azerbaijan. You'll get most of the nuts and bolts of the wine type and style from other reviews on this page so I won't get into it here. Suffice to say that we were given an interesting tour of the Shamaki facility, followed by a tasting in their a wonderful tasting room - among the best I've experienced. Coming from South Africa, I've had a decent amount of experience with this and thoroughly enjoyed it. After the wine tasting we enjoyed a delicious meal in the restaurant and more wine of course. Nasimi ordered for us, I can't recall the names of the dishes, but they were all delicious. After the meal we relaxed on the patio with some tea. My wife and I travel extensively and always enjoy exploring local wine culture. A wine tour with Nasimi is a must do if you are in Azerbaijan. He was also kind enough to keep in contact with me and gave us recommendations on wine bars to visit in Baku and local wines to try. I wish Nasimi all the best with his endeavours!

Pleasant and interesting wine tour - This tour brought us to Meysari village, 2 hours driving from Baku with a comfortable mini bus, a good driver and Nasimi as guide. He is a very nice guy, speaking perfectly English, giving all kinds of information about the country, the people and answering all of our questions. We were lucky to arrive at the time of harvesting on this (rather young) winery, the grapes were pressed into large tanks, giving a nice smell, a very interesting experience! After that we visited the vineyard and tasted some grapes, mostly from French origin. Next was the winetasting with very interesting wines in a beautiful wine cellar and we concluded with a nice qutab lunch (local pancakes). The way back to Baku was perfect for a little wine nap. We highly recommand this tour and Nasimi as the perfect guide!