Grown in Samegrelo & Svaneti Non-GMO · 100% organic · vegan Hand-packed in small batches US launch — reserve your first order Grown in Samegrelo & Svaneti Non-GMO · 100% organic · vegan Hand-packed in small batches US launch — reserve your first order

From the Caucasus mountains

The spices Georgian
cooks actually use.

Blue fenugreek from Samegrelo. Salt pounded with wild caraway in a Svaneti village at 7,000 feet. Khmeli-suneli blended the way it is supposed to be blended. Thirty-nine spices, grown and hand-packed in Georgia — now coming to the United States.

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Khmeli-suneli, the classic Georgian spice blend
Svan salt from Mestia
Ground blue fenugreek, utskho-suneli

Grown, not sourced

Everything comes from Western Georgia — Samegrelo for the chilies and adjika, Svaneti for the salt and the wild caraway that grows nowhere else on earth.

Nothing but the spice

No anti-caking agents, no rice flour bulking, no "natural flavor". Read the ingredient line on any jar — it lists spices, and then it stops.

Milled in small batches

Ground close to shipping rather than years ahead of it. It is the difference between a spice that smells like something and one that smells like a jar.

Non-GMO · organic · vegan

The whole range is certified non-GMO and vegan, with nothing of animal origin anywhere in the blends — including the ones traditionally made with it.

The catalog

Thirty-nine spices from Georgia

Each one is milled and packed by the same family operation outside Zugdidi. Prices shown are US launch prices.

Svan salt from Ushguli

Our story

We have been doing this in Russia for years. Now we want to know if America wants it.

Gurmadze started as a small operation bringing real Georgian food out of the villages it comes from — no wholesalers in between, no reformulation for supermarket shelves. Spices turned out to be the part people came back for, so spices are where we are starting here.

This page is a test. If enough people in the US tell us they want these on their shelf, we start shipping stateside. If you join the list, you will hear from us before anyone else, and the first batch goes to you at launch pricing.

  • Grown and processed in Samegrelo and Svaneti, Western Georgia
  • Milled and hand-packed in small batches, not industrial runs
  • 24-month shelf life on the salts and dry adjikas
  • Glass jars, no plastic sachets

US launch

Be first in line

Tell us where you are and what you would cook with. We will email you when we ship to the US — and the people on this list get the launch price and the first batch.

No spam, no resale of your address. One email when we launch, and that is it.

Questions

Before you ask

Can I order right now?

Not yet. We are measuring demand in the US before we commit to shipping, customs and warehousing. Everything you see here is real product we already sell — the waitlist decides whether it crosses the Atlantic.

What is utskho-suneli, and why does it keep coming up?

Blue fenugreek — Trigonella caerulea, a different plant from the fenugreek in your cabinet. Nutty and faintly sweet, closer to hazelnut and hay than to anything bitter. It is the single ingredient most responsible for why Georgian food tastes distinctly Georgian, and it is in most of our blends.

Is "Imeretian saffron" actually saffron?

No, and we would rather say so plainly. It is dried marigold petals — the Georgian name is a nickname earned from the color it gives. It is floral and lightly fruity, it turns satsivi gold, and it costs a fraction of crocus saffron, so you can be generous with it.

What is Svan salt?

Not salt with spices stirred in. It is a spice blend that happens to be held together by salt — fenugreek, wild Svan caraway, red pepper, coriander leaf, dill seed, Imeretian saffron and garlic, pounded coarse. Georgians finish almost everything with it.

How much will shipping cost?

We do not know yet, and we would rather not invent a number. Sorting that out is exactly what this test funds. Waitlist members will see the real figure before anyone is asked to pay anything.

Are the prices final?

They are the launch prices we are testing. If landed cost comes in materially different, waitlist members hear about it first and are under no obligation.