Öküzgözü from all around Turkey
Turkey is home to more than 1000 grape varieties and has been doing wine for more than 7000 years. Unfortunately people outside of Turkey...
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Henrietta Straton
- Jan 27
- 3 min
Büyülübag Öküzgozü-Boğazkere - the Turkish Wine Classics
What is Turkey's answer to the classic Bordeaux blend? It's, of course, the marriage of Öküzgözü and Boğazkere. Both grapes are from East...
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Henrietta Straton
- Oct 5, 2021
- 8 min
Paşaeli Wine Tasting in Amsterdam with Wines of Turkey
This week I had my first wine meetup in the Netherlands with Wines of Turkey .NL - Turkish wine importer in the Netherlands. We were...
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Henrietta Straton
- Sep 26, 2021
- 5 min
Thrace Wine Route - an immense wine region right next to Istanbul
The Thrace Wine Route (Trakya Bağ Rotası in Turkish) is the oldest wine route in the country that actually unites 4 separate wine routes...
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Henrietta Straton
- Sep 26, 2021
- 2 min
7000 Years of Winemaking. Practical Guide to Turkish Wines
Most of the people are surprised to find out that Turkey makes wine at all. In fact, the cradle of winemaking is somewhere around here in...
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Henrietta Straton
- Jul 27, 2021
- 5 min
The Thracian terroir through Chamlija's Teruar Serisi
What fascinates us the most in wine? For me it's the ability of a grapevine to tell us the story of the land, the year and the men and...
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Henrietta Straton
- Jul 27, 2021
- 3 min
Acikara - a rare and indigenous Turkish grape rediscovered by Likya
I’m extremely excited about tasting new varieties, especially when they come from the place of their origin and have a story to inspire...
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Henrietta Straton
- Jul 27, 2021
- 3 min
The hopeless love of Chamlija's Kara Sevda
What is love? Maybe this bottle is an answer? Kara Sevda translates as 'black love' (perhaps, better even ''hopeless'') and one might...
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Henrietta Straton
- Jul 27, 2021
- 4 min
Chamlija Kehribar 2019 - natural orange wine from Turkey
I don't really like pairing wine with food. This honesty might hurt me though as there's a widely accepted opinion that food makes wine...
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Henrietta Straton
- Jul 27, 2021
- 6 min
Chamlija - the winery of the Thracians
When you're visiting a winery the last thing you do is actually tasting wines. First of all (at least for me) it's meeting the people...
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Henrietta Straton
- Jul 8, 2021
- 4 min
Discover the Thrace Wine Route in Turkey - Chateau Kalpak
It’s been a while I was looking forward to an opportunity to visit Turkish wineries. Turkey is one of the oldest winemaking countries in...
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Henrietta Straton
- Jul 8, 2021
- 5 min
Discover the Thrace Wine Route in Turkey - Chateau Gali
The next winery I visited in Trakya, or let's say it properly, on the Thrace Wine Route, was Chateau Gali. The word means beautiful,...
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Henrietta Straton
- Jul 6, 2021
- 7 min
Turkish Island Wines from Bozcaada
A rocky island where the Marmara Sea empties to the Agean Sea. Here winds never stop blowing and your safe haven is the picturesque coves...
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