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

  It's been absolute ages since I've been to Lebanon. Luckily for me, even though Lebanese wine is not available in Turkey, I still get to enjoy the wine. My boss is both Lebanese and a wine lover. She will often share with me or even bring me a bottle after a visit to Beirut. The only small downside: she loves red wine so I get red wine. Being the grape geek that I am though, I've been dying to try the native Lebanese grape, Obeidy, that everyone's been talking about! Low and behold! From someone passing through Beirut, some friends arranged a bottle of white wine for me as

By 1Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Arcadia, based in upper Thrace in Kırklareli, has long prided itself on its winemaking techniques. Including a crazy looking machine that very gently filters the wines and then bottling them unfined. They're now following the popular trend of spontaneous fermentation, or doğal fermentasyon in the Turkish. This has become a growing trend over the last few years. Some wineries, like Kastro Tireli and Tomurcukbağ, have always allowed their wine to ferment spontaneously with ambient yeasts. Büyülübağ has made one or two "wild ferment" wines for years. When Claros opened, they did the same and Gürbüz, Paşaeli, and probably a handful of others all have at least a couple wines.

By 3Amphora, European Wines, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  With woman still being marginalized in the wine world (although oddly enough not in Turkey which you can read about here!), it continues to be important to lift up those who are in the industry. So, I'm celebrating International Women's Day with a wine made by a woman at the winery she owns: Csetvei Pincészet Ezerjó Amphora. I'm a great fan of Hungarian wine but rarely let myself open one. Once it's drunk, it's gone and who knows when I'll be able to get another one! [caption id="" align="alignright" width="351"] Krisztina Csetvei - photo from Csetvei Pincészet[/caption] And yet, if any day is a good day to enjoy one of

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

  I briefly mentioned the Yaban Kolektif during a previous post about Patkara. Since that collaboration with the Asmadan winery, Yaban Kolektif has partnered with Vinolus to create two new wines from the rare grape, Sungurlu. Similar to the Patkara origin stories, Sungurlu has previously only been vinified by Urla Şarapçılık as part of its limited Discovery series. Since then, we haven't seen anything from this grape.  From Yaban's Instagram: Yaban is a step taken to reunite viticulture and winemaking in Turkey with its past and forgotten values. We lost our rich viticulture culture, winemaking techniques, traditions, festivities and rituals in a short time after the natural disasters and forced population

By 2European Wines, Red Wine, Wine Reviews

  [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="500"] Image created by https://mycupofwine.com/[/caption] For March's #ItalianFWT chat, Jennifer of Vino Travels has invited us all to explore the wines of Molise, Basilicata, and Campania. I don't often get to play with the #ItalianFWT group as the wines are generally not available in Turkey. However, this year I am so excited because I have the wines to participate in almost every month's event! A friend recently posted to the consulate offered me space in her shipping/alcohol allowance insert mad scientist laugh. Aglianico del Vulture DOC Aglianico del Vulture DOC(G) is THE appellation in southern Italy's Basilicata. Located in the northeast of the region, the DOC and DOCG

By 4Amber Wine, Amphora, Articles, Orange Wine, Red Wine, Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  It sure felt like spring had sprung during the second half of February. Even my crocuses are blooming! But my experience both here and being from a northern state says that we shouldn't get too comfortable yet and that winter may once again rear its cold, snowy head. It likely won't be pretty when it does! Especially not for me as I've already been enjoying wine on my balcony.  What have I been drinking? Well, you'll have to check previous blog posts for that! What will I - and more importantly you! - be drinking this month? Just read on to find out! Aquarius (January 20 - February 18) Aquarius, do

By 1Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Granted we're going through a weird warm streak at the moment in Istanbul, but that's doesn't mean winter is over. It often makes itself know again at an inopportune time. When that happens, reach for one of these top cozy Turkish red wines that feel like a hug to keep you warm! Gordias Boğazkere, 2012 Hands down, Gordias's is one of my favorite Boğazkere wines. Canan brings her grapes for this in from Diyarbakır and ages the wine little, if at all, oak. One would think that might be walking on the edge with a tannic grape like Boğazkere, but it works! Medium opaque ruby, not as deeply colored as one would usually

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Pamukkale really want to you to know that the Pamukkale YT Boğazkere is a special wine. Not only was it bottled in an overly heavy format bottle, it also came wrapped in paper, resting in its own padded box. That's a lot of fanfare. Did the wine live up to it? Boğazkere isn't a grape we see a lot from Pamukkale in its premium wines. Mostly the winery focuses on international grapes for its top tier wines. However, it went native for this one which came out as a special, limited edition bottling celebrating winemaker Yasin Tokat's 50th harvest. I don't generally go in for Pamukkale's wines. But, seeing

By 1Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  I don't write much about Kutman wines (anymore). While the winery continues to put out new vintages, it hasn't released a "new" wine of late so it's fallen a bit off my radar. However, I happened to have a bottle of the Kutman Kalecik Karası gathering dust in my wine room. I bought it years ago when we visited for the book interview. At first it just got shuffled around and then it started to get older and I wanted to see how much longer I could age it.   Finally curiosity got the better of me and I opened my Adnan Kutman Kalecik Karası 2010. But before we get