Outside Tradition at Freya's Marani

A chat with the insanely precocious, Massachusetts-born Imereti winemaker Enek Peterson in advance of her seventh vintage - and her second as a working mother.

Enek Peterson draws samples from a qvevri, July 2022.

Imbued with a strange, sonorous authority that belies her young age and peculiar career path, Massachusetts-born Imereti winemaker Enek Peterson comes across as a sort of tabula rasa wine prodigy, born without vinous preconceptions.

Her wine career began in Tbilisi, where she managed the influential n…