John Wurdeman

Tbilisi: We listened to Patti Smith and Tina Dico while John Wurdeman drove. As we drew closer to Tibaani, the village where he and Gela Patalishvili founded Pheasant’s Tears—arguably the culinary and natural wine destination of the Caucuses—he pressed play on a cassette of Georgian polyphonic recordings, and we stared at the mountains towering over the…