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…

Chamlija Riesling 2015

Points : 7,5/10 Price : around 70 TL Chamlija is again doing a pretty good job with this Riesling 2015 that goes perfectly with seafood, oysters, or some refined game or some Parmesan or Comte if you want to have it with cheese😊

CHAMLIJA KARASEVDA 2016 Papaskarası

Points : 8/10 Price : 75 TL Chamlija Karasevda : a very nice red wine made of Papaskarasi grapevine. This grapevine has some ancestors in the Balkan. Not many wine producers in Turkey use this grape whose name means : pope’s black. Chamlija winery rediscovered this grape and gave it a chance, hence the name…

Turasan Seneler Öküzgözü Boğazkere 2014

Points : 7,5/10 Price : Around 70 TL One of the best quality price ratios in Turkey, this Turasan Seneler Öküzgözü Boğazkere 2014 is not so easy to find. I know three places where you can find it : restaurants Neolokal and Gaea, and the wine cellar Vinus in Nişantaşi, just in front of the…