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By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  During my buying spree at Sensus they gifted me with a half bottle of Yanık Ülke Strabon which is a Boğazkere, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Merlot blend. It’s like a personal bottle of wine! Well, who am I trying to kid? All bottles of wine, regardless of size, are personal sized for me! The dark, dark, dense red color matched the hot, spicy, smokey nose to perfection. And wow it’s got some legs. What are “legs” anyway? When I first started drinking wine I always looked for them during the swirl stage thinking, erroneously, that they were an indication of quality. Legs are actually an indication of the amount of

By 1Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  I fell a little in love with Gordias wines previously after trying the Kalecik Karası and Narınce. Then one afternoon in Sensus Galata I found MORE. More Gordias wines! Including a Gordias Boğazkere (55TL) and the “throat burner” Turkish grape has long been a favorite. I really let the anticipation on this one build and took some time to enjoy the deep, purply red color. Then on to the nose; what is that? Seriously it took me about 10 minutes to figure out what I was smelling. It was so familiar but at the same time utterly elusive-until it hit me; pine forests and leather. The nose is replete with

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

  I’ve been really lax about posting the Hungarian guest wines! I still have something like four to go! So on that note, next up is the 2012 Gelleri Cabernet Sauvignon. I quite liked this one. If I recall correctly we may have gone through the Gelleri stall’s stock of this one evening. We started out as four people and by the fourth or fifth bottle we’d collected a few more disgruntled colleagues. Each new person joining us went to get another bottle. The drinks stalls had a 500 Fiorent deposit on glasses and you could return them to any of the wine vendors to get back the deposit. Or

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

  The Vylyan Ordog 2012 we found at a restaurant one evening. Our choices were limited to only three reds (one of which was immediately eliminated for the sin of being a Merlot) and of the two remaining options, the Vylyan won because of the fantastic description: Because this is Hungary, the description in the menu was in Hungarian, English, and German. I have no idea what the Hungarian says but the English translation was pretty boring telling is only that “barrel aging makes this wine really demonic”. It’s in the German though that we found the best description: “Der Teufel der alten Legende ist liebevoll!” Or: The Devil of

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

  I brought home a number of bottles from my miserable week in Hungary. Which, to clarify, was miserable not because I was in Hungary but because of why I was there. What’s not entirely miserable is this 2012 Chateau Vazsonyi Zweigelt I picked up while there. I’m not sure I’ve ever had a Zweigelt wine before. Typically an Austrian grape (although apparently also cultivated in Hungary) the blue-black Zweigelt grape is used for both red and rose wines. A dark, opaque red, the Chateau Vazsonyi is very hot in the nose with cassis and maybe blueberry. It’s definitely a little hot. Not much for the tannins, nor is there a great

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

  We’re trying something a little different today! I was stuck in the middle of nowhere Hungary for work for a 10-day staff retreat…so naturally I was drinking. I was drinking a lot. It’s been 12-ish years since I was in Hungary and I knew zero about wine then which means that Hungarian wine made no impression on me (sorry, dudes). However I was happy to learn on this trip! That was about the only ting I was happy to do on that trip… The village where we were sequestered had a festival of Hungarianness. Although (as one vendor explained to me) it was not Hungarianness that has always been

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  I found a cork in one of my purses the other day and remembered that I got the cork at Solera some time back when E&M and I were there. We had a wine that night I liked a lot and kept the cork to remind myself. Unfortunately the cork was marked with only the maker’s name and not the exact wine so when I finally remembered to go back to buy a bottle I bought the only Yazgan on hand at the time-the 2013 Mahra Kalecik Karasi-Syrah blend. In the glass the Mahra is a nice clear red/garnet color. On the nose…red berries, cherries, maybe a little vanilla and

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Like the Urla, Nodus was another new discovery at Comedus. I chose this Nodus Cabernet Franc Merlot partially because Nodus was a new producer to me but mostly because I continue to search for a respectable Turkish Cabernet Franc. That this was a Cab Franc-Merlot blend didn’t thrill me a whole lot but I take what I can get. A very pretty garnet in the glass, I was getting a lot of green pepper in the nose which surprised me. I don’t usually look for either of these varietals to be bell peppery. Soft with low tannins and low acid, the mouth of the Nodus Cabernet Franc Merlot was full of lovely

By 2Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  I must preface this by saying that I actually drank this Turasan Syrah before the Emir I recently both reviewed and enjoyed. So…grain of salt. Since I’ve had a couple bad experiences with Turasan wines I was pleasantly surprised by one M bought a while ago. Like the previously reviewed Emir, the 2013 Turasan Syrah may have changed my mind. And at 38TL won’t break the bank. A pretty purple and a spicy, plummy nose lead to a soft wine and a mouth full of blackberries. I thought I also tasted sour cherries but either the wine was a little too yeasty or I don’t know what a red currant tastes like. According

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  I am so far behind on these posts! Wine Wednesday needs to come around more often. Or, knowing that isn’t actually possible, I need to be better about writing up full posts when I drink new wines instead of scribbling often enigmatic notes. However even if I’ve forgotten everything else about the 2011 Chateau Nuzun Pinot Noir, I do at least remember my first impression of it. Hello, Gorgeous. There’s a verb in Turkish, uflamak which means “to say oof”. So first, just sit back and enjoy that Turkish has a verb that means that. Sure we say “oof” in English but (to my knowledge) we don’t have a specific verb for