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By 0American Wines, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  This month, Camilla of Culinary Adventures with Camilla issued a CSA challenge to the #WinePW group. You can read her invitation here. The challenge - pair any wine with seasonal vegetables that you would receive in a CSA box or find at a farmer's market. I picked up that gauntlet as the perfect opportunity to finally cook something special for the bottle of Dracaena Wines Chenin Blanc I've been saving.  And I felt ever so peased to do so. Whether or not you wrote a blog for the theme, please do join the #WinePW Twitter chat group on Saturday, 13 August at 8 am EST/ 11 CST! Follow the

By 1Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  We are well and truly in the depths of summer now. Whether you're hiding inside with the AC or toughing it out, hoping for a good breeze, a nice chilled glass of wine comes as a welcome relief. While I think it's unfair to limit rosé to just spring and summer, there's no denying how many posts there are nowadays about rosé and rosé season. I haven't written much about rosé lately. But I thought it would be a good time to revisit the Buradan Şirin; especially as Buradan was kind enough to send me some wine! Buradan -  Wine "from here" Located in the Aegean district Çeşme, Buradan distinguishes itself

By 0European Wines, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  In 1997, the Tsimbidis family founded Monemvasia Winery in Monemvasia, Laconia, Peleponnese. Their goal: to reinvigorate little-known grapes lost in time. The Tsimdibis family took its time with its winery. They devoted their first years to the study of local varieties and experimenting making wines with them. It wasn't until 2005 that they even began to plant. Now, they are the proud growers of a collection of rare varieties, uniquely encompassing Monemvasia*’s terroir over 30 hectares of organic vineyards. *Monemvasia is the name of the winery, a municipality on the east coast of the Peleponnese, a town on a small island off the coast of the Peleponnese, AND a

By 1Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  Located in the Çömelek village in the Mut district of Mersin along Turkey's Mediterranean coast, Tasheli is a family-run winery that has had a long journey to get to where it is now. They began in 2005 as amateur winemakers but serious wine enthusiasts. Years of learning on their own and receiving guidance from other winemakers and experts have now paid off. With the help of Anatolian grape expert Umay Çeliker, Patkara became their star grape. But the winery does not neglect other regional, native grapes, like Göküzüm and Aküzüm. Grown in the Taurus mountains where high elevation helps mitigate the heat of the Mediterranean region, Tashaeli's Göküzüm vines are

By 1Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  Okay, well new-ish anyway. I first tried the İkidenizarası Bornova Misketi last fall when I saw their wines at La Cave in Cihangir. İkidenizarası is a new (again, new-ish) winery in the Urla district of the Aegean, Izmir region.  Between Two Seas İkidenizarası means "between two seas" and, while both of those seas are the Aegean, the winery does sit on the Urla peninsula putting it between two different sections of the Aegean. It's also conveniently located just a stone's throw from the Urla Bağevi Vineyard Hotel (one of my favorite places in Urla) in the Yağcilar village. In 1999, Serhat Akbay began experimenting with vines and making wine here. In due

By 4Red Wine, Sweet Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  Several months ago, Midin Şarapçılık sent me a selection of wines from their new 2020 vintage. A friend introduced me to Midin last year. Since then, I visited them in May of 2021, got try try most of their 2019 wines, and wrote about them for last summer's Jancis Robinson writing competition. The winery is only on its second commercial vintage but, comparing the new wines they sent me to my 2019 notes, I can already see an improvement. Now I look forward to 2021 which they predict will be their best year yet. They admit they've made a few mistakes and stumbles along the way, but who doesn't

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

  Finding Hungarian sparkling wine in Budapest is as easy as hopping in a cab! Located along the Danube on the Buda side of the river lies the neighborhood of Budafolk, an historic center of wine production and cellars. In 1880,  a union of wine producing and bottling industries created a cellar network hollowed out of the limestone beneath the neighborhood. The cellar system, 25 kilometers in length and the largest in all of Europe, still exists earning the area the name “Cellar Town.” Today a number of wineries still have production facilities here, especially those focusing on sparkling wine production like Törley, Sauska, and Garamvári. While I was in

By 0Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  In 2021, Diren Winery celebrated the centennial of founder Mustafa Vasfi Diren's birth. It did it the only way this winery could; by releasing a reserve Narince: the Vasfi Diren 1921 Narince. Diren and Narince are so intertwined, it's almost difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. Diren and Narince In the early 1940s, Tokat-born Mustafa Vasfi Diren attended the Bursa Agricultural Vocational School. While there he became increasingly convinced that the overall development of Turkey was dependent on agriculture. Coupled with the knowledge that Anatolia is the motherland of vitis vinifera grapes; his interest in viniculture grew. Diren spent the next 18 years learning about grape

By 0European Wines, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  This March at Oenorama in Athens, my friend Anna Maria of Unravelling Wine and Chania Wine Tours introduced me to the best Vidiano not from Crete. And coming from Crete, she would know. I've had a few Vidiano wines in the past. They've been nice but never done much of anything for me. But I will willingly go where Anna Maria leads so I followed her to the Oenops Wines table where I tasted the best Vidiano not from Crete. Oenops Wines Nikos Karatzas founded Oenops Wines in 2015. While his winery sits in Drama in the eastern part of Macedonia, his grapes come from everywhere. Karatzas tours Greece looking

By 1Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  If you're looking for the perfect wine for this summer, I've got it for you: Gürbüz Mood (the white one!). Trakya-based winemaker Akın Gürbüz offers the Mood series (white, rosé, and red) as his entry level wines. Uncomplicated but delicious, these are fantastic and fruity wines that won't break the bank. For the Gürbüz Mood white, he blended together Sauvignon Blanc and Misket for a delightful fruity and easy wine to enjoy on its own or pair with your favorite light summer meals. I first came across this wine last year and have already enjoyed it again this summer. Regardless of which vintage you might come across, you're