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By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Not even the Suvla shop in Cighangir has the Suvla Behramlı! I found it at the Macro Center in Levent for about 15TL and M got a bottle at the big Migros at Cevahir for 19TL. We must find it closer to home though because it was pretty darn marvelous. We started our evening with a pricey Vino Dessera and this inexpensive Suvla was so much better. So much better. I was pouring the Vino Dessera for everyone else to avoid drinking it and then plotting how to get more of the Suvla Behramlı for myself. So let’s talk about why it’s so good. Suvla’s 2013 Behramlı is a big blend

By 0European Wines, Red Wine, Rest of the World, Wine Reviews

  Aside from the Georgian restaurant a colleague and I found in Budapest on our free day, the only highlight, indeed the only thing that made the eight days I was stuck in Lake Balaton, Hungary bearable was the Hungarian Festival with its myriad of food, wine, and craft stalls. Especially the wine stalls like Tihanyi. Set in the middle of a park (which we don’t see too much of in Istanbul to begin with!) the festival was very atmospheric with lights strung up in the trees and communal tables for eating and drinking the many offerings. Many of those many offerings were pork-based foods and you can bet I

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  For no particular reason I rarely buy wines by Sarafin which makes no sense as Doluca has a reputation for making good wine under this label. The 2013 Sarafin Shiraz only supports that reputation. A nice, plummy purple color, the nose was full of red and dark fruits, pepper, and leather. Aged 12 months in both French and American oak it was very aromatic; really quite nice. On the palate the Sarafin Shiraz smooth with well-integrated medium tannins and acid. It’s a pretty big, full-bodied wine with lots of cooked fruit flavors, maybe some cassis, leather, and baking spices. Is it the most remarkable Shiraz I’ve ever had? No. Was it horrible? 

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  I’ve had this Vino Dessera Cabernet Franc for a while. I picked it up at Comedus maybe eight months ago, back when I still thought paying 70-something TL a bottle was outrageous. I feel like now that’s my median per bottle amount. I have an up and down relationship with Vino Dessera. I’ve had a couple amazing wines from them and a couple less wines. Unfortunately for me (and my drinking companions) this one fell into the latter category. In the glass the Vino Dessera Cabernet Franc was a not very attractive brownish red color. While it has been aged three months in oak I couldn’t detect any discernible oaky

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  I’m so glad I had this review pre-written for today. I’ve been sick a lot lately and with this latest cold I can’t smell or taste much. When I am unwell I waver between doing nothing, popping pills (a hold over from growing up with a mother who diagnosed us and handed out drugs from her considerable prescription collection), or attempting more natural methods. While my brother was here in October we went to my friend M’s shop in the Spice Bazaar where we discovered crystal menthol. That’s menthol. We’re not Breaking Bad over here. Breathing in menthol fumes is a great way to clear out your sinuses and I

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  The first time I saw a Chamlija wine at Sensus there were only two or three of them. Now they are everywhere and I need to try them all!! Luckily Solera, La Cave, and Carrefour are getting into the game so I’m pretty well guaranteed to find a bottle of Chamlija where ever I go. This 2013 Chamlija Cabernet & Cabernet I picked up at Carrefour for…I don’t remember how much. 40-something TL? 60-something? Not a vast fortune in any case. It’s 45% each Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% of the dreaded Merlot; but since it’s just 10% we’ll forgive its inclusion. In the glass it’s more purple than

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  I’ve had this bottle of 2012 Kayra Vintage Shiraz sitting on my wine rack for so long that I had to wipe off about an inch of dust when I pulled it out not too long ago to celebrate the brief return my awesome Australian neighbor. Shiraz/Syrah is not often a wine I choose. I find that it is often lighter and more cherry driven than I generally prefer wines to be but I do from time to time enjoy a jammy wine and Shiraz usually ticks that box. Kayra, based out of Elazığ, Anatolia is not a winery I talk about a lot even though I have featured

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

It’s been a while since we’ve featured a wine by Suvla. The problem with finding a wine producer that you really like is you (or I at least) burn through all their wines really fast and then there are no new wines to taste! That doesn’t mean I’m not still drinking Suvla wines, in fact I had a bottle of their Boğazkere recently, but it does mean I don’t post about them so often. However today we are talking about one of their newer wines, the 2014 Suvla Öküzgözü. Öküzgözü grapes usually produce a softer light to medium body wine and Suvla’s is no exception to that. On the

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  A while ago I was at La Cave in Cihangir looking for new wines and picked up this Likya Pinot Meunier. I’ve never heard of Pinot Meunier and decided it was worth the 70 TL investment to find out what it was all about. Turns out it’s all about Pinot Noir. Pinot Meunier, which is one of the three grapes used to make champagne, lives in the Pinot Noir family from which it is likely a mutation. Lighter in color and higher in acid than a Pinot Noir it does share some similar flavors but has less of the earthiness often found in Pinot Noirs. Thus says Google. In the

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Funny story. Also kind of embarrassing…while I was in Cappadocia with my brother I was determined to visit the Turasan Winery which is just 10 kilometers from where we were staying. My brother was up for being dragged along so off we went to Urgup. After a really nice lunch we headed up a steepish hill and zig zagged through some street construction until we arrived at a şarap evi (wine house). It didn’t say Turasan but according to the crappy GPS on my phone we were where we were supposed to be. Yeah, no. We weren’t where we were supposed to be. But I just shrugged and went with it.