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By 3Articles, Turkish Wine

  This June saw the launch of Turkey's newest wine route: the Troia Bağ Yolu. Pack your bags, put on some sunscreen, and get ready for an adventure! Troia Bağ Yolu / Troy Wine Route Troy. A name deeply embedded into the minds of every lover of myth and legend, every high school student who had to read Homer, all of us who sat through that truly terrible movie from the early aughts, draws tourists in droves year after year. The founders of the new wine route are hoping to capitalize on that.  The Troia Bağ Yolu (Troy Wine Route) has brought together people from both the wine and tourism industry in

By 3Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  A few weeks ago, I posted about a marathon wine tasting I did in Manisa. That tasting, hosted at Kastro Tireli by the winemakers behind not only Kastro Tireli but also Heraki, Yaban Kolektif, Sobran Bağları, and Vinolus featured the newest Erciş Karası vintage from Yaban Kolektif. I also recently wrote about the newest vintage of the Akberg Lethe Erciş Karası. But now it's time to really dig into the grape and see how it does with different winemaking techniques and how it ages. [caption id="attachment_22822" align="alignright" width="280"] Erciş Karası, photo by Yaban Kolektif[/caption] Let's get into it. Erciş Karası Erciş Karası comes to us from the northeast of Turkey, from the vast

By 2Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample but all opinions are my own. Summer might not be when you think want to drink hefty red wines. Or maybe it is, I don't know your taste! But, since summer is when people flock to Antalya, don't miss the opportunity to visit Sagavin and taste their wines while you're there. I've always felt a little 'meh' about Boğazkere and Öküzgözü blends. Maybe it's my innate dislike of Öküzgözü, even though I know it serves a purpose. But I also think that there are so many of them on the market and only a fraction of them are truly good. This one

By 0Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  This time of year is always fun for us winos. It's usually this late spring time when wineries start to trickle release new vintages of whites, rosés, possibly bubbles, and even a few of the more crushable reds. The Paşaeli Kabuğunda Co-Ferment, which the winery first released this time last year, has been in my writing queue for a wee little bit. Now the new 2025 vintage is out and I figure now is a good time to intrigue people into looking for the new vintage.  I've written about Paşaeli a couple-few times (well over two dozen times apparently!!). So, since this is already preparing to be a long post,

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

  My adventures with Turkish wine importer, Fine Turkish Wine, continue! Well at least the writing of them does, the adventures themselves ended in November. And it's taking ever so much longer to write about these visits than it took to make them! After two days in Trakya (aka Thrace), visiting first Arcadia, then Arda and Gürbüz Winery we headed for the Aegean. In this region, our first stop was Kuzubağ,  next to Heraki, then Kastro Tireli for a multi-winery tasting, and finally for our last stop in the Aegean, we made it to Akberg.  So, buckle up, you're in for another long post.  Akberg [caption id="attachment_22721" align="alignright" width="328"] Güney & Rob

By 0Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  I'm actually gearing up to write another lengthy post about a winery visit I made with Fine Turkish Wine back in November. It's taking me rather forever to get through these. But before I dive into another of those, I want to take a sec for a wine I keep meaning to talk about. The HUS Bornova Misketi.  HUS Şarapçılık HUS Şarapçılık has seen more than its fair share of tumult and tragedy for a young winery.  Ceylan Ertörer Diaz Leon and Juan Pablo Diaz Leon met while studying in Canada. While neither ever thought about having a life in wine, during a visit to Ceyaln's family in Urla, they both felt struck

By 3Amber Wine, Red Wine, Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  My adventures with Turkish wine importer, Fine Turkish Wine, continue! Well at least the writing of them does, the adventures themselves ended in November. And it's taking ever so much longer to write about these visits than it took to make them! After two days in Trakya (aka Thrace), visiting first Arcadia, then Arda and Gürbüz Winery we headed for the Aegean. In this region, our first stop was Kuzubağ, then we went on to Heraki, and then on to Kastro Tireli which hosted a mega tasting for us.  Kastro Tireli It's been many years since I last visited Kastro Tireli, and I'm glad we were following José. I vividly recall

By 2Articles, Travel, Turkish Wine

  The Lidya Antik Bağ Rotası, the newest of Turkey's wine route, has really come out of the gate at full speed with thoughtful branding, a slick website, an active social media presence, and special events. A couple weeks ago I attended a dinner hosted by the wine route. The guests were a quirky mix of winery owners and winemakers, marketing specialists, wine bar owners, social media wine influences, journalists, and somehow, me. [easy-image-collage id=22576] The evening began with an introduction to the wine route; its origin story, the inspiration, and the opportunity to taste some of the wines. We were then treated to a fantastic and not at all creepy puppet

By 1Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  How I've never posted about this wine before is really beyond me. Sometimes, something is so obvious that you just assume you did it. Better late than never! When people think about island wines, minds reach out to Greece, the Canary Islands, Italy. As much as 'wine' and 'Turkey' rarely enter people's thoughts at the same time, 'island wines' and 'Turkey' cross paths even more rarely. And yet, Turkey has islands and they produce wine. Wines from Avşa often get overlooked and little makes it off Gökçeada, but Bozcaada is a different story. While rarely explored in depth, Turkish island wines have made a name for themselves locally. Much of that

By 1Rest of the World, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  While there are plenty of Shiraz notes from both Turkey and Australia waiting to be written up, I wanted to shake things up a bit. Australia has been gaining a reputation for Viognier over the years while it's still largely unknown in Turkey. Despite its rarity in Turkey, we have some excellent examples here. Since I just happened to have a bottle of Viognier from Australia, why not pit them against one another? Viognier Viognier it seems is a bit of a struggle to work with. Not in a Pinot Noir prima donna way, but it is not disposed to producing healthy or bountiful grapes and is prone to coulure (uneven

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