Built in 1933 by Parten Gagua and Olgha Gegia, our Oda, a traditional style of western Georgian wooden house, is one of Martvili's oldest. In 2016, their great-grandson, Zaza Gagua, moved back to his great-grandparents' Oda, along with his wife Keto and two daughters - Olgha and Masho.

At that time, everyone in Samegrelo was oriented towards hazelnut plantations, and locals generally regarded the planting of vineyards quite skeptically. At precisely this moment, Zaza and Keto replaced the existing hazelnut plantation in their yard with vines, buried new kvevri in both open and walled maranis, and began fermenting organically-grown Ojaleshi purchased from several family vineyards in these new kvevri. Keto was the main initiator of this small family winery.

Keto is a journalist and wine writer. After completing university, over the course of ten years, she was a researcher for the Institute of Georgian Literature, and worked on her doctoral thesis at Ilia State University.

In 2015, Keto became the head of the Wine Information Center, and began writing about wine. She soon decided to develop her own personal experimental project - a limited quantity of the local grape variety Ojaleshi - fermented in an untraditional way. The popularity of this "Naked Ojaleshi" was encouraging, and Keto decided to pursue winemaking seriously. She studied in Georgia's Wine School, with practical experience in Germany at one of Rheinhessen's organic wineries, and in Bavaria's Research Center of Agriculture.

Today, in addition to managing the vineyards and winery, Keto continues writing, both about wine, and literature criticism. She is the author and co-author of books on literature (The Morphology of the Military Narrative, Georgian Writing of the Liberalism Period, Georgian Romanticism) and on wine (A Gently Fermenting Revolution: Women in Georgian Wine Business, Apocryphal Toasts).

In 2018, the Georgian Agricultural Ministry and the Georgian Farmers' Association declared Keto Ninidze the Woman Farmer of the Year.

Zaza and his friends founded the small winery "Vino Martville" (now Martvili's Marani) in 2012, which brought life back to the neglected Tekhura hillside in Targameuli village, which is part of Martvili municipality, and gave new life to Samegrelo's winemaking tradition.

Zaza is a geographer by profession. He manages the local protected areas. Out of love for his profession, he has traveled by foot not only throughout Samegrelo, but through nearly every nook and cranny of Georgia. Naturally, he was always most interested by the nature of his own region - by the waterfalls of Samegrelo, the canyons, the caves, the Colchian forests, and by the local ecobiodiversity. In 2010, he completed his master's degree inspired by Samegrelo's nature at Ilia State University, after which an expedition of the University's professors and master's students was developed to study Martvili's natural monuments and the potential of its ecotourism. The group of researchers was based in our Oda house. The result of the expedition was the popularisation of Martvili Canyon, and a new chapter in our family's story.