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By 3Amber Wine, Articles, Orange Wine, Red Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  A few weeks ago, I signed up for a wine tasting of rare grapes at Wayana in Moda. Wayana regularly does tastings, but this one caught my eye because I love nothing so much as a grape I've never heard of. What was billed as a tasting of eight wines turned into 13. Spoiler alert: it was pretty amazing. But before we dive into tasting notes, and we will get there, let's talk first about the mission to uncover Turkey's rare grapes. [caption id="attachment_14748" align="alignright" width="503"] Kösetevek grapes, Kuzeybağ[/caption] Uncovering Turkey's Rare Grapes I call it a mission, and it is "an important goal or purpose that is accompanied by strong conviction;

By 0European Wines, Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  Disclaimer: This post includes wines received as a sample. All opinions are my own. This March, to celebrate International Women's Day, Camilla from Culinary Cam invited those of us in the Wine Pairing Weekend writers to look at women in wine. Turkey has a higher than average percent of women working in its wine industry. You can read a little bit about it, including a few featurettes of some of these women, in this piece I wrote for Vintner Project. The short story, is that more than one-third of Turkish wineries involve women in high-level positions, and almost all of them employ large numbers of women in the field.

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Disclaimer: This post includes wines received as a sample. All opinions are my own. None of us had ever heard of the Black Sea grape Merzifon Karası before Likya debuted it as part of the winery's Arkeo line.  It seems it took another winery being successful with the grape for Diren, actually based in the Black Sea, to take notice and start making its own (far less superior imo) version. Then last year, Quinientos Dos (502) Vineyards, a new Black Winery, debuted its wines, including a varietal and a blend Merzifon Karası.  When I tried it last year (which you can read about here), I found a wild riot of

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Surrounded by mountains and the verdant forests of the Black Sea region, the district of Amasya lays about 120 kilometers from the Black Sea. Although near the sea, Amasya sits high above the coast and has an inland, hot summer Mediterranean climate. While tea might be the most famous crop to come out of the region, Amasya is well-known for its apples which grow well here. And maybe soon

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