Points : 8,25/10 Price : Around 120 TL Chateau Kalpak is a vineyard company trying to create a real sense of terroir with its wine. You can feel that with this bottle of Chateau Kalpak 2013 that we had the opportunity to taste at Alancha, a modern Turkish cuisine restaurant near Nişantaşı. It’s a classic…
Author: Joffrey Puente
Kayra Versus Alpagut 2015 Öküzgözü
Points : 8,5/10 Price : 87 TL Öküzgözü is one of my favourite Turkish grapes and this wine produced by Kayra never disappoints me. As always in Turkey alcohol is high with 14 degrees but tannins are soft. The nose is liquorice at first with red and black berries. The colour is deep ruby. The…
Doluca Sarafin 2015 Füme Blanc
Points : 7/10 Price : 85 TL Sarafin : a quite good wine serie made by Doluca winery that doesn’t take much risk, sells enjoyable wine of above than average quality both in red and white wine. Usually a bit expensive for what you get. Now there is for me one exception : Sarafin Fume…
Vino Dessera 2016 Kalecik Karası Blancs de Noirs
Points : 6,5/10 Price : Around 60 TL Turkish wine producers have also experimented what is called in French “Blanc de noirs”. Translated from Molière’s language, it means white wine made with red grapes. Here it’s a local Turkish grape called « Kalecik karası”. Vino Dessera are located in Thrace, the European part of Turkey,…
Likya Acıkara 2015
Points : 8/10 Price : 75 TL I had already tasted a bottle of Fume Blanc from the same winery and i had been disappointed. Now this Acikara, a rare indigenous grape brought back to life by the same winery, made a very good impression on me. It had a delicate and very soft peppery…
Chamlija Quartz Fumé 2015 Sauvignon Blanc
Points : 8,5/10. One of the best Sauvignon Blancs in Turkey! Price : Around 90 TL Glad to have found another beautiful Turkish Sauvignon Blanc and once again made by Chamlija. This Sauvignon Blanc 2015 Quartz Fume is delicate and elegant. You should notice some white peach, nectarine and rosemarie notes. A very enjoyable Mediterranean…
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