On Monday, I was in Istanbul with Hasan Turasan and other representatives of fifteen Turkish wineries.
Seven famous journalists came from UK to taste Turkish wines. It is a very important event. Thanks to them we have the opporunity to let know Turkish wines abroad and show to the world the incredible progress that wineries have made in recent years.
This day was also for us, wine producers, the opportunity to taste wines produced by the other Turkish wineries. It is a very interesting and rewarding exercise. I was surprised by a lot of wines. Most of the wines are complex and rich but really overoaked! A good wine is not necessarily a wooded wine and the best wines in the world allow the expression of the grape varieties and the terroir(s). Unfortunately many Turkish wines are masked by the wood they are made up... Hopefully this trend will decrease with the time...
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