Description: Wine, food, travel: what could be sweeter
Posted on May 31, 2016 Updated on July 8, 2016
Don’t let the umlauts scare you, Turkish wines may be difficult to pronounce, but they are oh so easy to drink
As if winemaking wasn’t already challenging, imagine doing it in a country where 83% of the population doesn’t drink and the government keeps enacting ever-more restrictive measures on marketing and selling alcohol. Now add a civil war next door and an increasingly volatile political scene and you begin to marvel at the dedication and determination of Turkish winemakers.