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By 0Sweet Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  I recently gave an online taste along about the grape Bornova Misketi. While the trend has turned to making dry wines with this grape, there are still a few quality sweet wines around. One of which, the Sevilen Late Harvest, I included in the tasting. It feels like ages since I wrote a sweet wine review so, while I only just drank this, this post is overdue. Sevilen, one of Turkey's largest wineries, makes some of the country's most recognizable labels with 20 different labels across five quality categories. The Late Harvest wine belongs to the winery's Ultra Premium series.  Sevilen Late Harvest 2013 Tasting Notes Made with, as the name

By 0European Wines, Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  I don't usually celebrate Rosé Day, pink wine not being a favorite of mine. However, this year the intermittent bright spring weather in Istanbul has gifted me with a fresh outlook on pink. So, I decided to dive into Rosé Day with a celebration of  four wines from three of the wine countries I know the best: Turkey, Austria, and Greece. Rosé Day in Turkey Rosé, or blush wine has gained popularity in Turkey over the last few years. Most wineries have added at least one to their roster (although a few have done it reluctantly). Some wineries make a distinction between the two terms. Particularly if they make more

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  The Boğazkere grape comes from Diyarbakır in Turkey's farthest east vineyards. Commercial wineries do not exist in Diyarbakır. Wineries around the country either own or contract with growers there and have the grapes shipped in. However, like many other grapes, Boğazkere has migrated to different parts of the country.  One place the grape has found a new home is in the vineyards of Urla Şarapçılık. Located in the same-named sub region along the Aegean and south of Izmir; So what does a Boğazkere from the Aegean region taste like? Let's find out! Urla Şarapçılık Boğazkere 2013 Tasting Notes To start, Boğazkere can often be a tricky grape to make into a varietal

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  From one of the most recognizable names in Turkish wine comes the Turasan Seneler Cabernet Merlot Syrah blend. The Turasan Seneler line includes many of the winery's top wines, all of which, red and white, have seem some time in oak. In fact it's right there in the name! "Seneler" means "years" in Turkish and these are Turasan's aged wines. For this wine, Turasan sourced its grapes from several vineyards around Turkey. The Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot came from the winery's vineyards in Central Anatolia. The Syrah came from Aegean vineyards in Denizli (670 kilometers away). Prior to blending, the wines aged an average of 12 months in French

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Spring has finally spring in Istanbul. We don't have a lot of green in this city so every tender spring bud is a precious miracle. I've lived in cities before and vastly prefer them to swaths of farmland where I grew up. But I do like a happy medium between the concrete and crop jungles. Regardless of where I'm living, one thing that does not change is how happy budding plants make me. Maybe its the rosemary, basil, and mint I just planted on my balcony, one tree on my street or the honeysuckle that seems to be growing out of the building behind mine. I find it all

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Last October Istanbites and I finally made it to Avşa island to visit Alp Törüner and his winery Büyülübağ. A lovely island in the Sea of Marmara, Avşa's population skyrockets in the summer. So we thought we would be really clever by waiting to visit until autumn. But September then October came and went until we were scrambling to book a fare on one of the last boats to the island before winter. Scramble we did though and, while it took forever to find one still open, we had a hotel booking, boat tickets, and were ready to go.   Adventures on Avşa Despite being so far into fall we really were

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Porta Caeli, on the Gallipoli Peninsula, is a luxury wine brand that tries to model itself after Bordeaux. The winery produces several series including Ament (all red), Pacem (whites), Felici (pink), and their entry series, Porta Diverti (all the colors). Previously I reviewed the Porta Caeli Ament Bordeaux blend. This post we're tackling the Ament Cabernet Franc. Porta Caeli Ament Cabernet Franc 2014 Tasting Notes Porta Caeli uses the heaviest blasted bottles I have ever hefted. Even after we finished the wine I kept trying to pour more because empty it felt like it should be full. It would make for a great weapon. The Cabernet Franc here spent 18 months in

By 0Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  Turkish winery Sevilen has winemaking facilities in both Mürefte and Aydın. They also have vineyards in several locations including Mürefte, Denizli, and across Anatolia. The grapes for this Colombard Semillon wine, a new release last year from Sevilen, come from the winery's Mürefte vineyards. Interestingly, while the wine is new, the vines are not.  It turns out that Sevilen has had its Colombard vineyards for something like 30 years. However, until now they used the grapes for brandy and table wine production only. Then last year, Sevilen's team took a trip to France. There they drank an amazing Colombard-based wine and realized how good it could be. With that

By 0Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Last summer, Istanbites and I visited Garova Vineyards and I wrote about a couple of the red wines the winery produces. Now it's time to tackle the Garova Öküzgözü blush.  Nestled in a bowl-like cradle in mountainous Bodrum and nearly lost in the riotous greenery of the surrounding agriculture grow vines of Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Shiraz, and Zinfandel. This is Garova Vineyards. While winery owner Mehmet Vuran grows the four aforementioned grapes onsite; he brings in Öküzgözü from the Denizli district of Izmir. He believes the more moderate climate there a better for Öküzgözü than the heat of Bodrum. I very much enjoy the Bodrum-grown Öküzgözü wines I've had.