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By 3Red Wine, Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  We spent Valentine's Day in Istanbul under both our regular weekend lockdown and a blanket of snow this year. Since we couldn't go out for Valentine's, I invited a couple people from my pandemic bubble over on Monday for a Galentine's Day wine tasting. The wines: four wines based in the Çalkarası grape from Paşaeli Wines. I've had all four wines individually but have really been wanting to open them together. Since even I have my limits I knew I needed help to open them all at once! I recently wrote conducted an interview with Paşaeli Wines owner Seyit Karagözoğlu for the Vintner Project. There are a lot of

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

  Friday heralded the Year of the Ox in the Chinese calendar. The day before happened to be a good friend's birthday. She usually holds a huge Chinese New Year pop up restaurant feast. However, COVID etc, that got canceled this year. Instead she hosted our small bubble for a Singaporean-Chinese new year-birthday feast. I decided to use the opportunity to see how I could pair Turkish wine with Chinese food. I brought a number of wines to the feast to cover as wide a spectrum as I could: whites, semi-sweet, rosé, amber, red

By 0Amber Wine, Amphora, European Wines, Orange Wine, Rest of the World, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  In Georgian white wine, Rkatsiteli reigns supreme. If you've had Georgian white (or amber) wine you've likely had this grape. Or maybe a Mtsvane. But, while the most common, these are not the only white grapes in Georgia's winemaking arsenal. While I do like Mtsvane wines, Rkatsiteli has never been my favorite. I tend to seek out wines from some of the less well-known grapes when I'm in Georgia. In particular I've long been a fan of Kisi. Because I do hunt them down, my last trip netted me wines made from not only the Kisi I like so well but also Tsitska, Tsolikouri, and Krakhuna. Lagvinari Tsitska, 2015 After a

By 0European Wines, Sparkling Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  Today is Furmint Day! I love, love, love Furmint. Dry, sweet, and everything in between. Sadly, my extremely limited supply of Furmint has dwindled. And with this year of COVID travel bans I've been unable to get back to Hungary to restock. So for today's Furmint Day I'm looking back at some of the very nice wines I've had in the last few years. Furmint, or Šipon? Furmint is probably best known as a Hungarian grape variety. While several theories exist as to how the grape ended up there; we do do know it's been growing there since at least the 16th century. An offspring of Gouais Blanc and an

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

  It seems difficult to think of a time when Greece and Malagousia were not synonymous. Granted my entrée to Greek wine is recent. But I feel like I learned about Assyrtiko and Malagousia at a similar pace. And yet, until the 90s, Malagousia was largely unheard of. In the 1970s Professor Logothetis from the Agricultural University of Thessaloniki rented a small plot of land from Yiannis Carras. There he planted several grapes he'd encountered on his travels around Greece, including Malagousia. While his early plantings were vinified with other grapes, Evangelos Gerovassiliou, then winemaker at Domaine Carras, quickly realized its potential. He began propagating the variety at Domaine Carras

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

  I am so excited to have my second piece up on The Vintner Project! I'd like to say that I 'sat down with' Seyit Karagözoğlu of Paşaeli Wines to talk about his wines and his efforts to reinvigorate some of Turkey's disappearing grapes. However, times being what they are we conducted the interview over a series of emails and phone calls. Karagözoğlu is one of a small, but dedicated, group in Turkey trying to rescue Turkish wine grapes on the brink of extinction and he talked to me about what called him to do this. Seyit Karagözoğlu and Paşaeli Wines: Rescuing the Lost Turkish Grapes Turkey ranks sixth in grape production,

By 0Articles, Sparkling Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine

  Emir, the lord of grapes and grape of lords! One of Turkey's premier white grape varieties, Emir is thought to have earned its name (which means "prince" or "lord") by being a favorite at the table of princes and lords during the Ottoman Empire. Or perhaps the name is meant to show how finicky and difficult the grape is to grow! Native to the Mid-Southern, Central Anatolia region, Emir (eh-meer) shares its home with Turkey's famous Cappadocia. While the grape does not exactly take advantage of the hot air balloon rides; being at home in this region means it's not afraid of heights! This region has a generally high

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

  Even before I visited one of Estate Gai'a's wineries I was a fan. While I went to the winery in the Nemea, Gai'a also has a winery in Santorini and it was the Assyrtiko from this winery that began my love affair with them. In addition to the winery's Thalassitis, a more traditionally made Assyrtiko wine, Gai'a also crafts a wild ferment Assyrtiko. The grapes for the wild ferment come from the winery's Pyrgos vineyards, part of the PDO Santorini. Here vines grow in the traditional ‘kouloura’ (basket) in the island's low nutrient pumice soils. Water is often scarce but humidity is retained by and fed back into the

By 0Sparkling Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  It's Christmas Eve!!! Huzzah! Based in the Kalecik village outside Turkey's capitol Ankara, Vinkara owner Ardıç Gürsel laughingly described the winery as "the largest of the small or the smallest of the large". When the Gürsel family founded the winery in 2003, size was not her goal. Featuring Turkish grapes was her number one and that's what they do. Vinkara's efforts in making fine wine with native grapes extends to Gürsel's number goal: to be the first to make a traditional method sparkling wine with a native Turkish grape. And that's exactly what she did.  Vinkara's Yaşasın, made with the not only native but local Kalecik Karası comes in a blanc

By 0European Wines, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  It's almost Christmas! Really really almost Christmas! This was the second to last bottle of wine in my Advent box 'o wines. This was also the final disguised for blind tasting bottle. Of course I would end on a blind tasting. But, let's see if I manage to go out with dignity. Energetic and mouthwatering with distinctive sea spray salinity that made me think: hmmm, I know you! High, lively acidity, medium-bodied, guessing moderate alcohol. Citrus and sea water