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This week we’re diverting from Suvla. Largely because I saw a bottle of wine at Carrefour last week that I don’t recall having seen

Last week I went to the Suvla shop in Cihangir for a bottle of Sur, completely forgetting that there were two. When I was

It’s December and yesterday was the first Sunday of Advent which means that it’s officially time to start playing Christmas movies and music and,

I was both excited and trepidatious going into this Suvla Merlot. On the one hand…Merlot; blech. It rhymes with ‘no’ for a reason. One

This week’s wine has a madly long name. I’m not entirely sure it quite lives up to its name though. The Terra remains my

Holy tannins, Batman! Is it possible to be in love with a wine? Well if it is then between Suvla’s Sur and this 2011

I finally found the Suvla store in Cihangir which is both good and bad. Good because the store carries all of Suvla’s wines; bad

Gallipoli is known for one thing, the shameful waste of lives in the World War I Battle of Gallipoli (or the Mel Gibson movie

Despite my resolve to review whites for the summer I’m moving back to reds. I just really don’t like dry whites under the best

The 2011 Diren Karmen was by far, in my opinion, the best of the reds that we tested at the wine tasting I hosted.