# Cardano Wine Traceability Program Covers More Than 100,000 Georgian Bottles

By Simon Yoon

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Published: 2026-10-20T00:08:15.000Z
Updated: 2026-10-20T00:08:15.000Z
Section: Technology

> QR codes link bottles to provenance pages, while Cardano holds data used to verify the records. Bottles from the same wine lot can share a record.

A Georgian wine program covered more than 100,000 bottles from over 30 wineries as of Aug. 19, 2026, using Cardano to help buyers check digital provenance records.

The Cardano Foundation announced its partnership with Georgia’s National Wine Agency, the Bolnisi Winemakers Association and Scantrust in 2022. The original pilot plan covered up to 100,000 bottles made from grapes harvested that autumn and wine bottled in spring 2023. The reported count exceeds that planned limit, though it does not establish how many bottles the pilot ultimately included.

A QR code on a bottle opens a Scantrust page with information about the wine’s origin and production. The underlying supply-chain data is stored off-chain. Signatures and hashes tied to that data appear in Cardano transaction metadata, allowing the submitted record to be checked. Bottles from the same wine lot can share a supply-chain record and transaction ID.

The checks can show whether the stored data has changed and whether its signature can be verified. They cannot independently establish that the wine inside a bottle matches the submitted description. The bottle count therefore does not mean that each bottle has a distinct on-chain record.

Georgia has required certification for grape-based alcoholic beverages produced for its domestic market since Jan. 1, 2023. Consumers cannot use the National Wine Agency’s electronic certification database to check a bottle’s lot designation. The QR system provides a separate view of provenance information, although some scanned bottles may show no agency certificate record through that system. That does not establish that those bottles lack legally required certification.

When the partnership was announced in 2022, Levan Mekhuzla, then chairman of Georgia’s National Wine Agency, said it would “help assure customers of the impeccable provenance of Georgian wine.” The record checks support that aim by making submitted information verifiable, but they do not measure whether the program has reduced counterfeiting.

The Cardano Foundation made its Originate traceability infrastructure open source on June 12, 2025. The Georgian wine project uses its OriginateNavio implementation.