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By 0Articles, Turkish Wine

  Discussion around wine influencers and their help or harm to wine writers has been a hot topic in the wine writing world of late. Some accept influencers as a matter of course [for any industry], or even think that they’re underutilized. However, others resent them for being (possibly) unqualified and cheapening years of wine study and service that the acknowledged experts undergo. Regardless of one’s feelings on the topic, social media is going nowhere and neither are the influencers. In Turkey as in other wine countries, influencers are big, particularly on Instagram. While their role may be hotly debated elsewhere; here in Turkey they are actually necessary. Since 2013,

By 1Amber Wine, Orange Wine, Sparkling Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  Not that very many things ever were fully closed for COVID (or not at least for long), but Turkey is more and more open now. As such, I decided it was finally time to get back to doing in person wine tastings! My first one recently had a small group of attendees in person (people I knew well who would bear with me during the moments when I forgot how to be in front of people again!) as well as online participants. To get back into the groove, I chose to do a tasting concentrating on a single grape: Yapıncak. Those who were with me virtually received tasting kits

By 0Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  This is the first review I've done for this winery. And while I've now had a couple few of their wines, I still don't know what to call the winery. Is it Kayraklı Şarapçılık (as indicated by the URL)? Asarcık Şarap or Asarcık Bağları (both of which are on the website)? No idea, so I'm throwing them all up here.  Whatever its name is, the winery is based in the Muğla district of the Aegean. Founder Orhan Kayraklı planted his organically farmed vines in the Asarcık valley between the Bozdurun and Selimiye villages. The vines, completely surrounded by mountainous terrain, grow at 250 meters. Continuous winds cool the valley making

By 0Articles, Turkish Wine

  Not far from Solera is Tarihi Pano Şarap Evi (Pano), an old-school spot that takes you back in time, to when wine and multiculturalism were still in fashion. Established in the 1920s by Panayot Papadapulous, Pano has the feeling of an old-fashioned Greek taverna. The extensive food menu includes both Turkish and international favorites but according to Yüksel, the wine expert you’ll usually find behind the bar, the cheese plate and wine are the biggest sellers. Papadapulous, from a Greek Orthodox family in Samatya, moved to Istanbul in the 19th century where he began secretly importing and selling wine from Bozcaada (then known its Greek name Tenedos).  In 1898

By 0Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  I am slowly slowly coming around to rosé. Well, I say "slowly slowly" but I'm discovering more and more wines that I enjoy. In fact, I dare say that I might be a full-on fan of rosé. I've avoided a fair number of wines because of my previously anti-rosé stance and I'm trying to correct that. Now I'm digging up pink wines I'd previously bypassed and have uncovered a couple gems! Prodom, one of Turkey's Aegean wineries based outside İzmir has made a rosé for years. I've never tried it. But when one of my favorite wine shops, Mensis Mahzen, recommended it, I decided to give it a go.

By 0Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  The story of USCA Winery began some 15 years ago when a group of friends, fascinated by the world of wine, decided to open their own winery.  Leaving behind their “city” lives and careers they moved to the Izmir district of Urla and in 2003 established their vineyards. When the winery was ready to start producing its wine the owners were stuck for names for them. One of the owners happened to be reading a book of Shakespeare's sonnets. They hit on the idea of naming the wines after sonnets that somehow reflected the wine in the bottle. Sonnet 99 The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst

By 0Articles, Turkish Wine

  One of Turkey’s most popular culinary traditions is that of rakı balık. Literally translated as rakı fish, this is the great tradition that comes from the Turkish meyhane, or tavern. Rakı is a grape spirit-based, anise-infused liquor similar to Greece’s ouzo and Lebanon’s arak. In Turkey, this drink, served over ice and diluted with water, accompanies traditional fish and small bite meze. While a modern tradition, and no offense to those who love the rakı balık, the heavy anise flavor of rakı doesn’t really go with a lot of foods. It’s time to make room on the meze table for wine. In my last article, Pairing Turkish Wines with

By 0Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  While I have embarked on a journey to learn to love rosé, that's not why I bought this one. Of all the wine tasting themes events I've done, one theme I'd never done was pink wine. To correct that, I planned one ages ago and bought all the wine. Then. Pandemic. The wine sat, and sat, and sat some more. By the time I finally did get around to hosting a Drink Pink tasting (which I did a few months ago), all the pink wine I'd previously purchased had sat so long that I couldn't get the same vintages. So, you know, I drank them myself. One of those wine

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

  Some Turkish grape names are very straightforward. Kalecik Karası, for example, means “black from Kalecik.” Very little to argue about there. Others, like Gök, have unknown origins. A few, like Karalahna, have hotly contested translations. Papazkarası (pa-paz-ka-rah-sih) is the only grape with a spelling dispute! Wineries seem to be split down the middle on whether they spell it Papazkarası, with a ‘z’, or Papaskarası, with an ‘s’.  However it gets spelled, one thing everyone agrees on is that this Thracian variety makes darn good wine.  The name means  “black of the pope” or “pope’s black” which allegedly goes back to the Byzantine era when wines made from this grape were