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
Read MoreHoly tannins, Batman! Is it possible to be in love with a wine? Well if it is then between Suvla’s Sur and this 2011
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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
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Gallipoli is known for one thing, the shameful waste of lives in the World War I Battle of Gallipoli (or the Mel Gibson movie
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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
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The 2011 Diren Karmen was by far, in my opinion, the best of the reds that we tested at the wine tasting I hosted.
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A few weeks ago I hosted a Turkish wine tasting for some colleagues. We tried eight different wines, some I’ve had before myself, some
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I was at The Cave, my local alcohol shop the other week looking for a selection of Turkish wines to try out on visiting
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Tursan is possibly the leading winemaker in the Cappadocia region. It’s a tough region with high elevation, grasslands, harsh, cold winters, and not a
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Such a week and it’s only Wednesday. First I got a job, then I got sick, then I had an Istanbuli police officer show
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