Translation Bureau in Gurjaani

A translation bureau in Gurjaani speaks the language of the wine business first of all. The Gurjaani municipality is Kakheti's most densely planted wine zone: Akhasheni, Mukuzani, Kardenakhi and Velistsikhe are protected designations of origin whose wine sells in Europe, China and America. Behind every such sale stands a package of documents that has to be prepared in the foreign partner's language - and that package is often more complicated than making the wine itself.

Alongside the business there is ordinary life too: students from Gurjaani at European universities, family members in Italy and Greece, foreign patients arriving at the Akhtala mud spa. All of it has one address - TARGMANEBI, which assesses a document sent from Gurjaani the same day and returns the finished translation locally.

What we translate for Gurjaani's wineries

Wine export documentation falls into three layers: what customs and the receiving country's regulator require, what the distributor requires, and what the consumer sees. All three call for a different style and a different terminology.

Label translation is a field of its own. The Chinese, EU and US markets each have their own list of mandatory statements, from how the alcohol content is written to how allergens are declared. Our translator does not merely translate the text but compares it with the receiving market's terminology, so that you do not have to reprint a run after it has gone to press.

An interpreter at the winery, the tasting and the negotiation

Foreign importers, sommeliers and investors come to Gurjaani several times a year. A tour of the cellar, a tasting and a discussion of the contract fit into one day, and on that day a professional consecutive interpreter decides far more than a relative who "knows English". We provide interpreting in English, Russian, German, Chinese and other languages - in the cellar, in the vineyard, at the restaurant and before the notary.

Interpreting needs to be arranged in advance: the date, the duration, the subject and, if possible, the material - the price list, the draft contract, the technical terms. That way the interpreter arrives prepared and is not hearing your cellar's particular vocabulary - qvevri, chacha, must, skin contact - for the first time.

Personal and family documents from Gurjaani

Besides business, ordinary family orders arrive from Gurjaani every day: a birth certificate to register a child abroad, a marriage certificate for family reunification, a school certificate and diploma for study, a criminal record certificate for a work visa, medical records to continue treatment, a power of attorney from a relative abroad for managing property. These documents normally need notarization and often an apostille as well - and we arrange both without your leaving Gurjaani.

The languages Gurjaani works in

Gurjaani's export geography sets its languages too. Chinese and Polish have grown fastest in recent years, English is the universal language of contracts, Russian and Ukrainian serve the traditional markets, and German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch the European distributors. On family documents Greek and Turkish are active, while Arabic and Czech are available on request.

Corporate terms for Gurjaani companies

For a winery translating several documents a month, one-off orders are inconvenient. So we offer Gurjaani companies a standing format:

• One responsible manager who knows your winery's terminology and style
• A terminology base - wine names, designations of origin and technical terms written identically in every document
• Settlement by invoice at the end of the month, rather than per document
• An NDA to protect prices, partners and production methods
• Priority turnaround during the export season and before trade fairs

On the paperwork your supplier is the sole trader Mariam Zumadze (ID 30601010853), to whom the TARGMANEBI name belongs, so your accounting department receives an invoice and a contract with full legal details. The office is in Tbilisi at 118 Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue, and the courier comes to Gurjaani by arrangement.

How an order from Gurjaani runs

International competitions, fairs and sommeliers' notes

Gurjaani's wineries take part in international competitions and fairs every year, from London and Dusseldorf to Hong Kong. Entering brings a document flow of its own: the registration form and the wine's technical sheet, where the variety, the viticultural zone, the method, the alcohol, the sugar and the acidity must be recorded in exact units; the winery's presentation and stand material; tasting notes that have to sound to a sommelier like their own professional vocabulary; and afterwards, translation of the medal certificate and the jury's assessment into Georgian, for advertising and export use.

The technical sheet is the one document where a misplaced decimal point takes a winery out of the competition. So the sheet is checked by two people: the translator for terminology, the editor comparing figures and units against the original digit by digit.

Time matters before a fair too: stand material, catalogue text and the price list are often finalised in the last week. So we ask Gurjaani's wineries to tell us the date of the fair in advance - we book the priority slot ahead of time and handle last-minute changes outside the ordinary queue. A technical sheet translated once is updated the following year with the new vintage's figures alone, which reduces both the work and the cost.

The Akhtala spa and medical translation in Gurjaani

Gurjaani's Akhtala mud spa receives foreign patients too, while local residents prepare documents for treatment abroad. In both directions we translate the medical history, Form 100, the discharge summary, test and examination results, the doctor's prescriptions, and the certificates and invoices an insurance company requires. A medical text goes to a translator with the relevant experience; diagnoses, drug names and doses are checked against the international standard, so that a foreign doctor can use the document without having to reread it.

Frequently asked questions - translation in Gurjaani

Translation bureau in the neighbouring municipalities of Kakheti

Everything the wineries and families of Gurjaani can do is available from every other town in Kakheti. Choose your municipality and see which documents are most in demand there.