September is one of the best months for visiting Istanbul. The heat and humidity of the summer are on the wane; the light is at its most enticing for any keen photographer; and for anyone who...

I found two great restaurant wine bargains last weekend in Paris, at opposite ends of the scale. Some of you may think I have gone a bit crazy about Turkish wine . It's certainly true...

I've fallen in love with a grape variety that's entirely new to me. I can neither pronounce nor spell it with ease in its native language but am told that its name translates as Bullseye, which...

Standing outside her restaurant just behind the Marmara Pera hotel in Istanbul, Ece Aksoy readily acknowledged the enormous debt she and her colleagues owe to this city’s rich and complex...

See also Young Turks of note . I have already outlined some of the issues and delights associated with Turkey's new wave wines in Talking Turkey , Turkey - some background and...

One of the ways that ambitious Turkish wine producers can compensate for the country's relatively low latitudes is to head for the sea. I took a ferry from close to the ancient city of Troy in...

I'll be publishing my overview of modern Turkish wine on Saturday in the Financial Times and in Free for all, and tasting notes on more than 80 of the better wines on Thursday. In the...

I spent the past holiday weekend immersed in the new generation of wines from...Turkey.  I must say that on the basis of what I had tasted in the past, my hopes were not especially high as I...

Turkey's vineyards are most famous for their dried fruit but some modern (ie cool-fermented) wine is made. For the moment it is largely consumed by tourists but the rest of us can expect a...