Wines of Turkey's eight participating wineries brought their wines to London's Vinopolis earlier this year for their inaugural London tasting. Julia and I managed to taste 52 of them between us....

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 have been most famous for producing dried fruit but an increasing amount of modern (that is to say, cool-fermented) wine is also made. There are vineyards in many very...

Here's a sad tale from fellow wine writer and Rhône specialist John Livingstone-Learmonth. 'I have just received my invoice for placing six magnums of 1998 Châteauneuf-du-Pape...

From £14.95 Find this wine Turkey is clearly on a roll as an emerging wine producer. I loved my one and only trip there in 2009, about which I wrote here and elsewhere....

'Would you like a drink?' 'Sherry.' 'Sherry.' 'Sherry?' 'Sherry.' 'Sherry.' Perhaps not the most famous of the many quotable...

Today's wine of the week is not the only Bulgarian of interest to curious, unprejudiced, quality-conscious wine lovers. Another was Isa Güner, a first-generation immigrant from Bulgaria to...

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'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...

Everything here is seriously worthwhile for some reason - either it is a notable bargain or absolutely delicious, occasionally both. See WineSearcher for international stockists....

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...