My husband and I went to Georgia in mid/ late June but I'm just getting around to the trip report now. Georgia is absolutely fantastic and it was one of my favorite places we've been. I would live there. Rick Steves doesn't cover Georgia, and the other usual guidebook names weren't very helpful, so we found most of our information on the www.wanderlush.org website. Other than one small quibble, I found it to be incredibly detailed and accurate. We also have several friends who had been to Georgia recently, and also some friends who lived there during Covid after needing to evacuate from the country they were living in. They had some off-the-beaten path recommendations.
We flew Air Arabia which was pretty terrible, but arrived in Tbilisi unscathed. We spent the first four nights in Tbilisi at the Fabrika Hostel, which is a huge hostel with mostly private rooms. They have some dorms. It's an old factory that was recently converted, and there's a huge work/ lounge space on the main floor. In their "backyard" is an outdoor area with lots of restaurants and bars. It was a fantastic location, and also very easy to take a Bolt to the other side of the river. Our first night in Tbilisi, we ate at Khash-Khash, which was one of our favorite restaurants and just across the street from the hostel. Their chicken with garlic sauce was easily the best we had in Georgia. Cafe Daphna was our other favorite restaurant (amaaaazing khinkali).
In Tbilisi, we did a lot of wandering, and took the cable car which was fun. The wanderlush blog has lots of ideas of what to see and do. Tbilisi is a fantastic city, and a good city for walking, too. On our 3rd day, we took a day tour to northern Armenia through Gamarjoba Georgia Tours. We were really glad we went as the monasteries and scenery were fantastic, but I would only do that if you had plenty of time in Georgia already (which we did). On the last day, we picked up our rental car to head to the town of Signaghi, and stopped at David Gareja Monastery. I've also seen it spelled Davit Gareja. We were so glad we went- it's a small site (you can't go to the other monastery, which is over the border in Azerbaijan- we didn't see any border guards) but the views of the painted hills are fantastic. There is a restaurant called Oasis Club in town which had good food and a very nice owner.
In Signaghi, which is one of the main wine towns of Georgia, we stayed at a guesthouse, which was lovely but not my thing. We only saw other guests once so I would have preferred it if there were others. Signaghi is a small town and 3 nights was just about perfect. Make sure to find the town walls for good views. There are lots of wineries in town, and good restaurants. One of the days, we hired our guesthouse host's husband to drive us around to some wineries. I would have done that differently because we didn't get to choose where to go. We did go to Khareba, which was absolutely wonderful (good guide, cool wine tunnels, etc) but the other ones were a pretty lackluster experience. Our last night in Signaghi, we drove to Lost Ridge Inn and Brewery, which is about a 5-10 minute drive outside of town. We glamped which was fine (they had just opned and the tents were really, really hot) but wished we had stayed in the hotel. The bar/ restaurant serves good food and craft beer. Highly recommended, especially for the views. It's a horse ranch and they led the horses through the outdoor space of the restaurant later in the evening, which was fun to watch.