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By 0Red Wine, Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Female owned and operated Tafali Bağcılık is one of Turkey's newest wineries. Based in Kalecik, join the ranks of wineries like Tomurcukbağ and Vinkara in focusing on the local grape, Kalecik Karası. So much focus in fact, that they make only two wines. Both 100% Kalecik Karası, one a rosé, the other a red. But before we get to the wines, a bit about the winery and the women behind it.  [caption id="attachment_16287" align="alignleft" width="225"] Me, in lieu of a label![/caption] Fatma Yiğit and Alime Cicerali are agricultural engineers who became friends while working together. They decided to explore a different side of agriculture and started a small vineyard in

By 0Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  In a somewhat recent wine tasting, Drink Pink!, I featured a series of rosé wines. I'd had many of them before. Two were go-to rosés for me. However, one was completely new to me. And I really rather liked it. Selefkia Blush. Starting right off with the blend, it combines Patkara (80%) and Gök (20%). The grapes were co-fermented with four hours of skin contact. These are both grapes that are slowly starting to emerge onto the market thanks to Mediterranean wineries like Selefkia. Patkara is a black grape and Gök white. Have you heard of Mersin? This is a pretty well-known coastal city on the Turkish Mediterranean. I've never

By 0Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  [caption id="attachment_16139" align="alignleft" width="225"] Pürneşe red label[/caption] Pürneşe is a semi-new series from Vino Dessera. Occupying a place in the winery's mid-range line up, the Pürneşe series includes a red blend and a blush. I have had them both but it was the blush that really stood out for me. Vino Dessera brings in grapes from vineyards across Turkey. For the Pürneşe Blush, they used Çalkarası and Kalecik Karası from Denizli in the western Aegean. Kalecik Karası we frequently see as both varietal and blended rosés. Very few wineries really work with Çalkarası though. The exception to that has been Paşaeli and it's nice to see other wineries, like Vino Dessera,

By 0Articles, Red Wine, Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine

  If Turkey has a workhorse grape, this is it. Grown in the abundant vineyards of Denizli in Turkey's Aegean region, Çalkarası (chal-car-as-ser) has often been used to support red blends. In blends, it lends some acidity to flabby grapes and fills out a wine if the preferred grapes didn't do so well that year. Meaning the "black from Çal" this grape prefers the clay loam and chalky soils of, you guessed it, Çal (a district in the Denizli province). The dark purple have a slightly elongated shape, are small to medium in size, and don't have especially thin skins. They retain acidity well and when vinified as a red wine,

By 10European Wines, Red Wine, Rose Wine, Sparkling Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  My introduction to Hungarian wine occurred on a work trip to Budapest in 2004. Budapest is a beautiful city I have since fallen in love with. But I felt strange in this wintery, new country where I didn’t speak the language. The wine, a syrupy, low quality Tokaji sold in the tourist shops. A memory quickly forgotten. More than 10 years later I would find myself in Hungary again for work. This time, I was not alone and was sequestered with colleagues in a spider infested hotel on Lake Balaton. The hotel food was terrible, the conference not going well, and we were at one another’s throats. Then someone

By 1Red Wine, Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  The Urla district of İzmir in Turkey's Aegean region has become a hotbed of trendy wineries. Many belong to the Urla Bağ Yolu (the easiest wine route to navigate). Even those that do not though are not so far off the path. The newest winery to open its doors is Hus Şarapçılık. Founded in 2017 by Juan Pablo Diaz Leon and Ceylan Ertörer Diaz Leon, Hus Şarapçılık is a family venture that blends the Chilean wine background of Juan Pablo's family, and the agricultural history belong to Ceylan's family. When I talk about the Turkish-Greek population exchange of the 1920s, it's usually about the Greeks leaving Turkey (as that directly

By 0Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  For this month's #ItalianFWT, Camilla from Culinary Adventures with Camilla has invited us all to explore the world of Ramato wines. You can read her invitation post here. You can join us too! Even if you haven't written a post about it, join our live Twitter discussion on Saturday July 3 at 8 am CST / 11 am EST / 6 pm GMT +3 (aka Istanbul). What is Ramato exactly? While researching ramato wines I ran across an article from Decanter that starts with this brilliant sentence: Ramato is for the wine lover who wants more from their Pinot Grigio, but don't go thinking it's just another rosé or orange wine. This

By 0Red Wine, Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  To kick off summer, I recently hosted an online wine tasting of some of Turkey's island wines. Turkey has several islands which boast great seafood, nice beaches, old forts, beautiful scenery, and yes, wine! Many of the grapes grown on these island grow only on these islands. Happily for those of us in Turkey, we needn't trek to the islands for the wines as they're widely available on the mainland. For the tasting, I selected five wines from four different wineries. Four grapes are native Turkish but one is a Croatian transplant. Yes. Croatian. You'll have to read on to find out which grape! Çamlıbağ AyaPetro Erken Hasat, 2020 We began

By 0Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  I realized a few months ago that I have tried every wine from Urla Şarapçılık except the winery's rosé. Since I don't generally hold rosé in the highest opinion it's not a surprise that I hadn't had it. However, I must do my best in my quest to try all the Turkish wines!  Based in the southern İzmir district of Urla, Urla Şarapçılık heads up the Urla Bağ Yolu. Its wines include a series of red blends, varietal Boğazkere (grown onsite vs brought in from Diyarbakır) and Patkara, varietal Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Sungurlu, Gök, a white blend, a sweet white, and this rosé. Urla Serendias Roze, 2018 The Urla Serendias Roze

By 0Amber Wine, Orange Wine, Red Wine, Rose Wine, Sparkling Wine, Sweet Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  It was recently pointed out to me that I never posted a list of my favorite wines from 2020. In fact, I have not posted a list like that since 2017! How embarrassing. However, I feel happy that someone reads this often enough to have noticed the oversight! We can all agree that very few of us enjoyed 2020. At least I had wine to cushion the blow! Below is a list of my favorite Turkish wines that I tried this year (in no particular order). Unfortunately my typing is a lot slower than my drinking so I haven’t posted reviews of all of them but for those I