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By 0Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  Even if the weather doesn't know it, we are barreling toward spring's warmer weather. That means it's time to ease into cheerful and easy sipping white wines! But what if you can't decide between Turkey's two most popular (native) grapes, Emir and Narince? Drink a wine with both like Kocabağ Emir Narince! I'm a huge fan of the Kocabağ K Emir so, a while back when I was ordering wine from them, I thought, hey, let's throw in a bottle of this Emir Narince blend!  Kocabağ Emir Narince, 2021 Kocabağ's Emir comes from its vineyards around Cappadocia but my guess is they bring the Narince in from Tokat. Nothing fancy here

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

  I don't know about you all, but the beginning of 2023 did not treat me well! Despite vowing to not participate in dry January, circumstances forced a two week fast on me. So, I feel quite happy to see the end of the month. Hopefully February will treat me better! Given my lack of drinking last month, I have many plans for February. What will you be drinking? Read on to find out! Aquarius (January 20 - February 18) Aquarius, brace yourself for frustrating drama. This is going to be a roller coaster month for you with ups and downs and swells of turmoil. The part that really sucks is that

By 0Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  It's summer. It's hot. Unless of course you live in the southern hemisphere but, if you do, you're probably dreaming of summer now! These days, most of us are probably reaching for a cold white or rosé wine or even a light-bodied, chilled red wine. But pairing wine with a meal? Cooking?! What's that in this heat. Forget about it! This weekend, the #WinePW crew will be talking about their favorite way to beat the heat: Linda from My Full Wine Glass has invited us to share our favorite summertime wine and easy bites. You can read her invitation here. Whether or not you wrote a blog post for

By 1Articles, Turkish Wine

  Located a little over an hour's flight from Istanbul, Cappadocia is the jewel of central Turkey. Its surreal "fairy chimney" rock formations, hot air balloon tourism, and network of underground cities and cave churches has made it one of the country's top attractions—for good reason. Just as impressive but far less known, however, is the region’s history as an important wine center that predates Christianity and where some of the world’s first viticultural legislation was introduced. Today, Cappadocian producers draw on this rich history to produce interesting, complex wines that spotlight ancient native (and foreign) grapes. In Cappadocia, evidence of grape and wine production dates back to at least

By 0Articles, Turkish Wine

  Visitors to volcanic regions often have little doubt about where they are. Volcanic mountains and hills (active or not) make up places like Mount Etna, Santorini, Somló, and the Canary Islands. Wherever you happen to be, you know you’re on land created by violent, fiery, eruptions. But not all volcanic regions are so obvious. In Turkey’s Central Anatolia, Cappadocia, famous for its hot air balloons, hidden cave churches, and strange fairy chimneys, does not have a towering volcano. There are no craters or deep piles of lava rocks. But this land too was created by fire, ash, and lava. While volcanoes have not been active here in a very

By 0Sparkling Wine, Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  Last Saturday I hosted another Turkish wine Taste Along. In addition to having a wee handful of people physically present with me, tasters joined us online from Istanbul, Athens, London, DC, and Las Vegas. Cheers especially to those in Vegas who were easting breakfast and drinking their morning cuppas along with the wine! When I first started in Turkish wine there were really were only what I call the Big Six for grapes. Three white grapes and three black grapes; finding wine made from a seventh Turkish grape was like finding a unicorn. However, even though now winemakers here have greatly expanded both their and our horizon with more

By 0Turkish Wine, White Wine, Wine Reviews

  Last fall while in Cappadocia with my brother we stumbled upon the Kocabağ winery. I don’t recall ever seeing this wine in Istanbul so I took advantage of being there and picked up several of the winery's Emir wines. Previously the only Emir varietal I’d seen was Turasan’s so I was excited to see how many Kocabağ had. One of the things I continue to like about Emir wines is that it does not match well with oak so in all likelihood your Emir has been steel-aged. This Kocabağ Emir (40-something TL I think) was pale and brilliant in the glass with a lot of pineapple in the nose.

By 0Red Wine, Turkish Wine, Wine Reviews

  Funny story. Also kind of embarrassing…while I was in Cappadocia with my brother I was determined to visit the Turasan Winery which is just 10 kilometers from where we were staying. My brother was up for being dragged along so off we went to Urgup. After a really nice lunch we headed up a steepish hill and zig zagged through some street construction until we arrived at a şarap evi (wine house). It didn’t say Turasan but according to the crappy GPS on my phone we were where we were supposed to be. Yeah, no. We weren’t where we were supposed to be. But I just shrugged and went with it.