This past Sunday we tasted the finest wines coming from the Balkan peninsula at the event organized by Terroir Journey and Once Upon A...

Turkey is home to more than 1000 grape varieties and has been doing wine for more than 7000 years. Unfortunately people outside of Turkey...

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...

Throughout its' history, Slovenia had all the ups and downs a winemaking country can possibly have. One thing is clear - today this tiny...

When you want to taste a high quality red wine it's quite unlikely that anything but Barolo, Bordeaux, Burgundy or Tuscany comes to your...

This week I had my first wine meetup in the Netherlands with Wines of Turkey .NL - Turkish wine importer in the Netherlands. We were...

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...

What is love? Maybe this bottle is an answer? Kara Sevda translates as 'black love' (perhaps, better even ''hopeless'') and one might...

This is a real mysterious gem on the slopes of Mt Etna wine region! Navigation kept making fun of us taking to different dirt roads,...

The first Etna winery on my agenda was Tenuta delle Terre Nere, which in English means 'estate of black land'. The winery was founded by...

When you say Piemonte people tend to immediately think of Barolo. But the region has so many things that are not red. The crispy whites...

I'm very pragmatic when choosing a winery to visit. Especially when it comes to Barolo DOCG - a region so rich in outstanding wine and...

Barolo is a very ‘political’ wine. How else? Aren’t we all seriously speaking about the ‘revolution’ that happened in a wine region and...

If you'd like to start with the overview of Alta Langa DOCG, learn about varieties, winemaking techniques and the famous Canelli...

To be honest, Bouzeron was the first appellation that I planned to visit after completing my WSET course in Château de Pommard (I visited...

During my stay in France tasting wine at 10 am became my everyday morning routine (except Sundays, of course :) As part of my wine trip...

Poor soil - the neutral, ready to sing about terroir Chardonnay loves it! As a result of a beautiful serendipity, in Chablis I paid a...

Not a celebrity appellation hidden amongst the famous Grand Cru sharks of Burgundy? Very good, sounds like an appellation to discover!...

Once you meet Thierry Valette, you know it's time to listen with 200% of attention, absorb as much knowledge as possible and remember all...

When we speak about the world's top wine regions, the ones that even the non-drinkers heard about, we all mention Bordeaux, Burgundy,...