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By 2Red Wine, Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  Undeniably the smallest with only four members, the Güney İzmir (South Izmir) route even shares some of its members with the İç Ege Bağ Rotası. Its small size in no way detracts from the joys to be found at each winery though. Güney İzmir Bağ Rotası Yes, this is the smallest of all the routes (and includes two repeat wineries) but I think it's one of the most culturally interesting. As far as what (else) there is to do along the route that is! Closer to the top of the route lies Metropolis. No, not the home of the Daily Planet and Superman! The ancient city is located, ironically, near Yeniköy

By 0Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  Turkey's Aegean region is home to beautiful coasts, vistas, and culinary delights. Thanks to these advantages, it's also a hotbed for both domestic and international tourism. Alaçatı, Ceşme is one of the prettiest villages along the southern Aegean coast and a big stop on the tourist trail. The city center is all low, white-washed buildings with colorful (mostly bright blue) shutters and simply dripping with flowering bougainvillea. Tucked in amidst all the restaurants, boutique stores, and tourist chachki shops one finds the Gemici Wine & Jam shop. In addition to homemade jams, soaps, oils, and the like, the shop also carries wine made by the Gemici family. The Gemicis make

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Pinot Noir and I have not got on very well. Just not my grape. I have enjoyed a few, chiefly Chamlija's Felix Culpa. But overall the grape has always left me feeling flat. Until a visit to Ma'Adra in Turkey's north Aegean. Also, not going to lie. I love the Burgundy wine glass. Mother Earth in the Madra Mountains Former architect Fikret Özdemir once visited old vineyards in the Madra Mountains and was struck by the beauty there. When Özdemir retired, remembering his visit and reaction to the land, he decided to start a winery in the area as a retirement hobby. The land he selected has not been worked for anything,

By 0Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  It was while studying agriculture in Germany that Gaye Özcan, proprietor and winemaker at Nif Bağları, learned about the grape Solaris. Developed in 1975 in Germany, Solaris is a hybrid grape resulting from a crossing of Merzling and GM 6493 (which itself is a crossing of Zarya Severa and Muscat Ottonel). Early ripening and disease resistant, Solaris can reach high sugar levels even in cool climates with little sunshine making it increasingly popular in Europe's more northern countries. Having gained an appreciation for the grape and its viticultural properties, Özcan ensured the planting of some vines in her Aegean vineyards. Currently she uses the grape only as a blending partner

By 0Sweet Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  To those for whom it's a surprise that wine is made in Turkey, it will come as an even bigger surprise to learn that all styles of wine are made here. We have all the colors (including amber), dry, off-dry, fully sweet, sparkling, and even fortified. Being a lover of sweet wines myself I'm always on the lookout for a new quality dessert wine. One day I noticed that my wine shop had two different vintages of LA Wine's Passito on the shelf and though it would be fun to try them side by side. But first, what is passito wine? The answer lies in the name. In Italian,

By 0Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  The Aegean island, Bozcaada - formerly Tenedos-has a long history of winemaking. So long in fact, it rated mention in The Iliad. Today this storied island, now in Turkish hands, produces far less wine than it did in history. Some of the wineries, like relatives Talay and Çamlıbağ, also have long histories. Not ancient Greece long, but beginning of the Turkish Republic long. Some, like Corvus and Amadeus MMX are new comers. Amadeus MMX, as its name might indicate, is owned by an Austrian family; one that came to Turkey in the 60s and stayed. The current head of the winery, Oliver Gareis, was born here. While the family

By 0Red Wine, Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  The Zero Kilometer food trend that began a few years ago involves restaurants that source ingredients from their immediate area. In many cases this often means not only getting produce and other products from local farmers but growing and producing everything in an onsite restaurant garden. This trend gained popularity for a variety of reasons: it supports local agriculture, ingredients are always fresh and in season, and because the resulting food both expresses a sense of place and is appropriate for that place. It was this sense of locality that spoke to Türgay Gümüş when he founded his winery, Buradan, in the coastal village Çeşme outside Izmir. "Buradan" is

By 1Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  In high school one of my favorite songs was Aerosmith's Pink. And while pink anything, let along wine, is not my obsession, I'm no longer so obsessed with hating it. In my previous post about Turkish rosé, I covered a handful of pink wines I've had here which have helped (slowly) change my mind about rosé. As winemakers respond to the global trend that has popularized rosé as serious wine so too has the quality increased. There's still more than enough plonk available. However, one can find a few gems out there ranging from the fruity and simple to more complex and savory. Maybe the next time you reach

By 1Rose Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  As it has elsewhere in the world; pink wine has caught on in Turkey. Some winemakers make it grudgingly to satisfy market demand while others do so for the joy. I have my own very decided opinions about pink wine which I hold forth openly and somewhat bombastically. But I have set myself the goal of trying all the wine Turkey produces. Which, given the relatively diminutive size of the industry is frustratingly difficult to do. My self-appointed mission also includes all the pink wines. While I think many might dismiss rosé as being "sweet", my main issue with Turkish rosé is that it often tastes like

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  Despite a winemaking history that some scholars say extends back even further in history than the Republic of Georgia's (renown for claiming to have 8,000 vintages of history), modern day Turkey has little to no domestic wine culture. Under Ottoman rule, Muslims were prohibited from making and drinking of wine. Combine that with the loss of the Greek and Armenian populations (i.e. those who could make and drink wine) in the early Twentieth Century, it's no surprise that today's Turks are just at the beginning of their wine discovery. While a small handful of wineries have operated here since the 40s, the winemaking boom only really began around the turn