In the 6th century from Assyria under the command Ioane Zedazeni had arrived with Attsameti Saint Fathers to spread Christianity in Georgia. One of the Attsmaeti Saint Shio built Monastery in cave which is located upper Mtskheta, in front of the present Dzegvi, on the left side of Mtkvari, hereinafter called as a Shio Mgvimeli. Shio had the wine cellar in the monastery, he treated guests with wine. Pitchers, according to the story, were filled up. Out of course " Shio Cellar " was became synonymous of acknowledgement of the receipt of possession, plentiful". ( 1979:763 Sakhokia )

" Shio Cellar" is in the beatification text and much praised of the New year and Christmas:

" God has a way to make

As a Shio Cellar.

Bread - Wine give you a lot!

Other mercy of the many "...

(Poetry 59)

Folk blessing – “Shio Cellar” is often mentioned as a symbol of wealth, plenty, inexhaustible wealth.

"God has the power to longevity,

As a Shio Cellar".

Mentions of “Shio Cellar” to the blessing toast are bounties from the Lord.

"Shio Cellar" - a clear example of how is difference in life and folk speech, faith Christian speech and how to sustain the vitality of centuries.

It’s important that Georgian word “Cellar” - the house wine (Orbeliani), more generalized, the place to feed bread-wine, which is designated as a holiness, fait to the Georgian people. Cellar considered a sacred place by the ethnographic reality shows, the traditional way of life. If the church was too far, or bad weather hampered, marriages were conquered in cellar. It should be noted that Cellar is a sacred place to the Georgian people it expresses – Christ’s flesh and blood as a bread and wine.

There is an old church “Shio’s Cellar” in Kakheti near village Ruispiri it was built in XII-XIII th centuries, An old wine pitchers are still reserved (Kvevri) there where priests made wine, and there is an old winepress too.

It shows how wine making was revived by that time.