tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82566244430041577212024-03-05T16:05:25.351+03:00In Pursuit of FlavorThoughts of a wine lover from TurkeyElif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-3990517191403674752015-09-02T21:24:00.001+03:002015-09-02T21:24:31.431+03:00This blog is moved to a new placeThanks for visiting my blog. I'll continue writing <a href="http://flavorinthewineglass.wordpress.com/">here.</a>Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-39305115387400389032015-08-30T22:02:00.000+03:002015-08-30T22:02:57.866+03:00A few wines from Germany<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Taylan came from Frankfurt, and Ece came from Antalya. She was so badly ill, that she wore two pullovers of mine on top of her long sleves - we are in the middle of summer & it's 30 degrees out there! But still, we weren't going to let them go back without trying the wines that Taylan had brought from Germany :)<br />
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Taylan told us that Riesling Spätlese should be a sweet wine (the salesman told him so), but it turned out that I was wright. It was a dry wine. I told him, a German man doesn't write "trocken" on a bottle for no reason!<br />
<a name='more'></a>It was a lively wine with high acidity, flavors of citrus, was so fruity and balanced, with a relatively low level of alcohol (10%). It was very light & easy to drink. We liked it very much. We discussed and concluded that the low level of alcohol should mean residiual sugar in the wine, but none of us has a palate to assess the level of the residual sugar :)<br />
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Then we decided to open another Riesling (not spaetlese this time) to compare. <a href="http://www.weingutpjkuehn.de/index.php?id=1069" target="_blank">Peter Jakob Kühn</a> Riesling Trocken 2013 had relatively higher alcohol level (12%), had a higher acidity, more flavors on the nose and the palate, a bit dry ending on the palate (maybe compared to the first wine). It was a Riesling as we know it. All of us except Ece liked this wine better compared to the first one we tasted.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chat Sauvage Pinot Noir 2013 Rheingau</td></tr>
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Then, we decided to try the <a href="http://www.chat-sauvage.de/index.php?id=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pinot Noir from Rheingau</a>. I thought that they call it Spätburgunder in Germany. So, there has to be reason for which it is called Pinot Noir, isn't it? I haven't tasted enough Spätburgunder to comment on this. This was a fruity Pinot Noir with full of red fruits and high acidity. We liked it, but I felt a little dryness in the ending, maybe this is because of the sugar in the first wine? At the end, isn't everything effected by relativity?<br />
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Our next wine from Germany will be Eiswein (Icewine) hopefully. If you don't know what it is, I can tell you, but not now. Maybe in my next post...<br />
<br />Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-86351634139189302562015-08-30T18:27:00.003+03:002015-08-30T19:53:48.819+03:00I'll start writing here again.For a long time, I have written several posts in <a href="http://kadehtekilezzetinpesinde.com/" target="_blank">my other blog</a> (basically same blog in turkish), but I didn't post anything here.<br />
I decided to revive this blog. We'll see...Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-56681791712557410462011-10-30T08:42:00.000+02:002011-10-30T08:42:27.488+02:00Akberg Şirince Shiraz 2005<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Akberg Sirince Shiraz 2005 is another wine that we bought when we travelled through Sirince. This wine was a surprising experience for me. First, the color was a fresh, dark red. Altough I know that Shiraz usually produces lively & dark red wines, considering that this is a wine of 2005, I expected a little paler color from this wine. Apparently, this wine was not that old.<br />
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When I smelled and tasted the wine, I became doubtfull about the grape, whether it was really Shiraz. As far as I know, Shiraz usually produces rather round wines with rich and complex fruity aromas. This wine rather presents an incomplex, cherry like flavor and quite bitter taste that feels like tasting an anripe fruit. This was not a bitterness to make a face, but is rather a bitterness like the tannin caused bitterness of Bogazkere.<br />
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When I tasted the wine after two hours of aeration in a big glass, the wine was softer, less bitter, and less sharp in smell and taste. Still, the bitterness was standing in the forefront according to me. Each time I tasted the wine, I felt like tasting an anjelique plum that is not ripe enough. Additionally, I noted that the wine had thin-medium body, moderate acidity, marked tannin and a rather short ending.<br />
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I used a wine stopper with vacuum to close the bottle. After 2-3 days, the wine was still there without losing anything. I wonder if this can be a sign showing that the wine has a potential to age for more years.<br />
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Would I try this wine again? Well, I prefer to discover other wines instead of rediscovering this one, but if you would like to try a local wine in Sirince, Artemis would be certainly a good choice.Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-85856357819898984392011-10-29T11:49:00.000+03:002011-11-24T23:46:52.243+02:00Vacuum Wine Stopper<br />
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This is a problem because, you can't open a wine and put it simply in the refrigerator and continue to drink it all week. The taste changes significantly, especially after 2-3 days. There is a simple solution for this, which I discovered unfortunately very late.<br />
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This is a vauum wine stopper. Do you know how difficult it is to find it in Turkey? I found this one in France, in a souvenir shop of a monestery! I am sure that you don't have to go that far to find it, but I still bought it when I saw it in France. Just because, hmm, why not?<br />
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For those who don't know how this works, I'm going to try to explain it. The small part in the picture is a stopper. The bigger part is something like a pump. You set it on the stopper, and you move it as if you are pumping air in it until you hear a "click". You are actually taking air from the bottle.<br />
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You can open a bottle now, without worrying about whether you will be able to finish it or most of it will be wasted. You can trust that your wine will be safe for days, much more than 2-3 days, as long as you close it with the vacuum stopper. Just remember that you can't easily open the sopper if you vacuumed the air from the bottle.<br />
<br />Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-90055650971435199022011-10-27T20:23:00.000+03:002011-10-27T20:23:39.098+03:00Amadeus Cabernet Sauvignon 2010<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the first time that I tasted a wint of Amadeus thanks to a good friend, who recently went to Bozcaada for vacation, admired the island, and returned with this wine as a gift to me.<br />
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This is Amadeus Cabernet Sauvignon 2010. Considering that we are in October 2011, I wondered if it was too early to drink this wine. Curiosity won the battle and I opened the bottle.<br />
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When I tasted the wine immediately after opening the bottle, I couldn't sense anything but the intense taste of alcohol. After half an hour, I noticed that the taste of alcohol was softening and the fruity aromas started to appear slowly. After a period of aeration, the wine became a full bodied wine with intense taste and long, strong ending. However, the taste of alcohol was still to strong for me. I thought may be the reason for this was that the wine was too young, even immature. I don't really know if the strong taste of alcohol can be related to the age of the wine. I hope someone knows about it and shares their comments with us here.Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-29985594265992241932011-10-22T21:29:00.001+03:002011-10-22T21:30:22.837+03:00M. Chapoutier Petite Ruche Crozes Hermitage (2009)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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We had a lovely dinner in Lyon in a restaurant called Les Lyonnais. The watier (I believe he was the chief and the manager at the same time) was a friendly man with good sense of homour.<br />
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I took the card in the picture before I left the restaurant. There is a<a href="http://www.restaurant-lyonnais.com/"> link</a> on the card. When you click on the link, you will see several pictures. The only one that looks like the restaurant where we had our dinner is the picture on the right, in the middle vertically showing red walls and wooden chairs.<br />
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We had a reservation at 8.00pm, but we were free at 7.00pm, so we went to a bar for a drink. It was a bar with old looking furniture with red velvet sofas. I felt like in my grandmother's house. </div>
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Eventually, we were starving when we went to the restaurant at 8.00. We couldn't order our meal for about 40 minutes, which, I understand, is normal for southern France. I think they see it impolite to serve quickly and therefore, they leave you enough time to enjoy your evening. Of course it doesn't feel very good if you are starving :) Anyway, I ordered some meat and told that I wanted to have it "well done". Altough I like to try new tastes, the French way of meat cooking - which is basically not cooking according to me- is a little too much for me. I respect their confidence in their style, but I prefer not to see any blood in my plate.</div>
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Then, it was the time to choose wine and we asked his advice. He told us that the wine in the picture is a nice wine from Rhone valley. It was a really nice, medium bodied, fruity wine with a little fume cheese aroma. We liked it very much and felt lucky to enjoy our last food and wine in France in this lovely place.</div>Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-59206266798628197092011-10-19T21:34:00.004+03:002011-10-19T21:34:54.401+03:00Istanbul is raising a toastDoluca has a campaign called "Istanbul is raising a toast". This is an organization that basically provides anopportuinity to order certain wines in glasses in certain places. Those wines are mostly the wines that cannot be ordered in glass normally. So, on 19-30 October, you can go one of the restaurants listed<a href="http://www.istanbulkadehkaldiriyor.com/mekanlar.asp"> here</a> and order some of the wines in their menu (chosen from <a href="http://www.istanbulkadehkaldiriyor.com/sarap_listesi.asp">this list</a>) in glass. If you like it, you could always order them with the whole bottle!Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-21333299063245203862011-10-18T20:55:00.002+03:002011-10-22T12:35:48.827+03:003. Kanyon Wine Tasting DaysThere will be a wine tasting fair in Kanyon (Istanbul) again, between 21-23 October. You can see the detailed program <a href="http://www.kanyonsaraptadimgunleri.com/">here</a>.<br />
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I attended this event previously. There was a very nice atmophere. There were basically tens of wines and you could taste any of them! So, it's worth to be there.<br />
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Edit: This event has been postponed as announced <a href="http://www.kanyon.com.tr/#/tr/bu_hafta-4/iii_kanyon_sarap_tadim_gunleri_ileriki-76">here</a> (there isn't an english version of this announcement).</div>Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-8084730319259630572011-10-17T20:37:00.002+03:002011-10-17T20:37:56.588+03:00Giulio de' Medici Chianti<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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When we were in Nimes (France), we had a dinner in a lovely Italian restaurant, Danieli. Considering that it would be a good idea to eat a local food together with local wine, we ordered the onlu Chianti in the menu.<br />
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Before going into details of the wine, I'd like to mention that I had a great Ravioli filled with cheese. It was much better than I expected. It was cooked in cassarole and of course some parmesan was on top of it. I know discovering local food is part of travelling, but if you happen to go Nimes, my advise would be; don't insist on a French restaurant so much! Trying Italian food for one night wouldn't harm.<br />
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The wine was also good. I don't know which grapes were used for it. I don't really know much about Chianti wines, but I plan to learn and share with you soon. I just know that Chianti is the name used for some portion of Tuscany, where winemakers are densely located. Anyway, it was a light wine with thin body, a little grassy aromas and relatively low alcohol (12,5%). We liked and anjoyed it.Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-86549687288572437532011-10-11T23:40:00.000+03:002011-10-11T23:40:04.591+03:00Chateau de Pibarnon 1998<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chateau de Pibarnon 1998</td></tr>
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<span style="color: black;">In our second night in Auberge de Cassagne, we had our second
dinner in the hotel's Michelin star restaurant. I'd like to mention that, when
I write "we", I mean my cousin and myself. My cousin is a person who
likes food and wine, in fact, she might be loving food much more than me. So,
I'am in expert hands :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">When she showed to the sommelier of the restaurant three wines
from the huge menu, he immediately eliminated one of them saying that the
others are much more better appelations. Then we chosed one of the wines of
better appelations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I have just read a few things about French wine appaleation and
I'm going to try to explain it to you. Appelation is a way of classification
that creates certain rules for the wines that are subject to the appalation's
control. The rules can limit the grapes to be grown in certain areas, can
organize the way of planting vine, or can limit the yield in certain areas. It
is constantly controlled whether or not these rules are obeyed in the vineries
that are subject to the said appelation.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>If
a wine is subject to an appelation, there is an expression like "...
appelation controle" on the bottle and the wine is differentiated from the
rest of the wines without any appelation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Chateau de Pibarnon 1998 is subject to Bandol appelation, of which
I didn't hear before. The sommelier said that this was a better appelation
compared to certain others that we showed to him. Besides, he also said that
this wine would have certain flowery aromas (which I don't remember) including
violet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I couldn't smell any flowery aromas and decided to stop taking
antihistaminic pills for a while. I still think that this was the best wine
among the few wines that I mentioned in my most recent posts. I can also say
that it has a little thiner body and is easear to drink compared to the wine
that was the subject of the previous post. It is also richer than the other
wines that I mentioned in my most recent posts which I wrote while I have been
travelling in France. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-5202254138402378122011-10-08T01:11:00.001+03:002011-10-08T01:11:07.228+03:00Le Temple 2005 (Chateau de Bas)I had the chance of staying at<a href="http://www.aubergedecassagne.com/"> this hotel </a>in Avignon, France. This hotel is not only said to have a traditional Provence style, but it also has a restaurant listed as a one star restaurant in Michelin list. When our guide told us that our hotel was unfortunately a little far from the city center, but luckily had a one star restaurant, I was sure that I would not try to go to city center ever during my stay there!<br />
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Avignon has been the center of papacy for a few decades in 14. century. After the return of papacy to its home, it is mainly remembered for its theater festival in July. It is a small town with cute streets and many stores with beautiful displays. Our hotel was 7 km away from the city center and it was barely noticable in its surrounding.<br />
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I am not going to write about what I had for dinner in detail, because basically I don't have enough time for this and it is also not my style! I am sharing a few pictures with you and I also need to say that anything I tasted (even the bread) was really delicious. Please take a look at cheese choises that they offered when I said I would prefer cheese instead of desert.<br />
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While the menu was of normal size, the wine menu was as big as a calculus book! The wines were listed according to their region and the prices were written. There was a wide range of prices. We all ordered different meals including vegetable salad, duck, and veal. The sommelier suggested that we should order a not so strong, but still rich wine. He named a few, but we insisted on a wine from Aix en Provance and he politely said that one was ok too :)<br />
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Although I chose different things that I normally like, anything I tasted was delicious to me. The wine was actually a little stronger than we needed, but it was still a very nice wine with fruity and spicy aromas. I noticed later that Oz Clarke mentioned in his pocket book 2011 (subject of a upcoming post) Chateau de Bas as the first in the list of procucers in Coteaux d'Aix en Provence (I'm not sure that the list was sorted according to anything, but it was at least mentioned in the list).<br />
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Before and after our dishes, we were offered certain offerings of the chef, which all were also delicious. I had not ever taste a chocolate truf that was so light! I melted immediately in my mouth. I suggest deating in a restaurant from Michelin list if you have the chance. And do it in France if you could!<br />
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I would like to mention also that the prices were not extremely high compared to a regular restaurant in France. The starters and main dishes were around 30-40 Euros, but there were set menus costing 49 Euros including a starter, a main dish and a desert all of which you could choose amonf three alternatives. You may decide by your own judgement whether or not it is worth of it, taking into consideration that this is a one star restaurant according to Michelin list.<br />
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<br />Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-83200737439637125192011-10-06T01:15:00.001+03:002011-10-06T01:33:40.896+03:00Chateau Brilette 2004<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chateau Brilette 2004</td></tr>
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After an exhausting day in Aix en Provence (France), we decided to have our dinner in our hotel. I let my cousin choose the wine, and she choose a Bordeaux as usual. Chateau Brilette 2004 is a Cru Bourgeois Superieur, which basically means the second best quality in Bordeaux wines :) It has a strong and a little tannic taste, which is delicious, needless to say.<br />
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I don't know how they manage to do it, but all of their wines taste very good. There are also some other things that I like about French dining culture.<br />
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Firstly, each person's meal on the same table comes at the same time and each finished palate leaves the table at the same time. They don't remove the empty palates until everyone has finished. I find this very nice. No one feels like he/she is eating alone. Additionally, if someone on the table orders a starter, the others have to wait for the main course until this person has finished the starter. This can be annoying sometimes if you have to wait for someone else to have their starter while you are starving. We usually ask each other to know if a starter will preceded the main course so that we can at least also order a starter not to wait while we are already starving :)<br />
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Secondly, they experience their meals as a long lasting pleasure. I personally believe that one should only eat as much as necessary for healt, but I still admire their devotion to pleasure. If they are in a rush, they don't even sit on a table but they grab a sandwich, because they believe once you sit on a dinner table, you should sit there at least for two hours! May be the fast pace of the modern life has rasped this habit of them a little, but I admire that they save so much time for themselves to have a dinner, even if it is only once in a while. That reminds me of one hour lasting lunch breaks in which we had our lunches and also managed to do a small shopping before we went back to our offices. I feel pity for ourselves.Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-7442327031390713622011-10-04T01:29:00.003+03:002011-10-04T01:29:42.946+03:00La Croix Irresistible 2008<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My dear readers, I am writing this post in Marseille, France. While you are reading this post, I might even moved to another city of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provence">Provence</a>.<br />
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Life is beautiful around here. Dinners last at least 2-3 hours, and people drink wines in lunch, dinner, or whenever they want to. I got used to it very quickly. I can't always have 2-3 hours lasting dinners though, but I ordered so many wines without even chosing them by name or region. We just ordered "vin de pays" (the category just above the lowest one) in carafe pr ordered wine in glass and they were nice.<br />
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I have a notebook with me to make tasting notes, but I could not make any notes yet, because I don't even see the bottle of the wines we order, so basically I don't know what I'm drinking. We only ordered the wine that you see in the above picture willingly and knowingly.<br />
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We chosed this wine when we had a dinner in Marseille, very close to the harbour. The wine menu was divided in regiouns of France, and we chosed a wine among the ones under "Provence". This was a very nice, fruity, a little tannic but round wine. I learned later that it was made of 80% Syrah and 20% Grenache. I think it is not as strong as Bordeaux wines. I believe I can tell you more about Provence wines after I taste a few more of them in the following days.Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-30992775406896272882011-10-01T18:42:00.001+03:002011-10-01T18:43:49.307+03:00Akberg Gamay (2004)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>I had tasted Akberg wines when I visited <a href="http://inpursuitofflavor.blogspot.com/2011/09/sirince-wines.html">Artemis Winery in Sirince</a>. I also had tasted their Gamay and I liked it, but I didn't like this wine. It tastes too sweet for me. I didn't feel anything but sweetness. and I couldn't finish my glas.<br />
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Please don't think that something was wrong with the wine. I believe it is only me. It was just not one of my favourites.Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-25144542025599890222011-09-26T19:01:00.000+03:002011-10-01T19:02:25.266+03:00Doluca Verano Blush (2010)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I came across this wine surprisingly when I was looking for a wine that I could drink together with aperatives in a fish restaurant (cause I can never come to the main meal and usually finish eating before the fish comes to the table). I didn't even know that this wine existed because as you would remember, I started to be interested in rose wines only a few posts ago.<br />
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Verano Blush is a rose colored, refreshing, and red fruity wine made of Grenache grapes grown in Doluca's vineyars in Saroz (Turkey). It is delicious and very easy to drink. Don't limit yourself with aperatives as I did! Drink it with whatever you like, as red wines are still not enough refreshing in these still warm days of September.Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-29091097611474976442011-09-24T11:36:00.000+03:002011-09-24T11:36:25.554+03:00Chateau Villemaurine (2006)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><a _mce_href="http://kadehtekilezzetinpesinde.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/P1020548.jpg" href="http://kadehtekilezzetinpesinde.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/P1020548.jpg" style="color: #ff4b33; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;"><img _mce_src="http://kadehtekilezzetinpesinde.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/P1020548-225x300.jpg" alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-740 alignleft" height="300" src="http://kadehtekilezzetinpesinde.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/P1020548-225x300.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #444444; display: inline; float: left; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; height: auto; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 24px; margin-top: 4px; max-width: 100%;" title="Chateau Villemaurine" width="225" /></a></span><br />
<div>A French wine again. I am totally confused about French wine classification. Whenever I read about French wine classification, I learn something new that undermines my previous knowledge about it. </div><div><br />
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</div><div>Whichever classification this wine belongs, it is a grand cru, so it is extremely prestigious. Contrary to what most reasonable people would do, I did not keep this wine for a special ocasion. Instead, I suddenly decided to open it in a regular night at home. </div><div><br />
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</div><div>The wine stayed in my glass for hours, but I still thought it needed airation. May be it was too early to open the bottle. Still, it has a beautiful taste, intense, fruity and full of strong tannins. I admired French winemakers once more, and I wished that I would admire Turkish winemakers as often as I admire French ones.</div>Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-37829753646737158722011-09-17T10:43:00.000+03:002011-09-17T10:43:28.554+03:00Doluca, Karma Chardonnay - Narince (2008)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Karma Chardonnay Narince</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The wine that you see in the very bad picture on the left is a very nice white wine. You should have noticed that I keep the promises that I make and give chances to white and rose wines.<br />
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</div><div>I mentioned this wine briefly here previously. It is a white wine of Karma group of Doluca, which are made of one local and one international grape. A nice blend of Chardonnay and Narince.</div><div><br />
</div><div>I like both Chardonnay and Narince and I tasted this wine before. So, I knew that I would like it this time, too. I gave it an extra credit when it glorified my evening with my friends that I missed and love so much. They all said they loved the wine. </div><div><br />
</div><div>You should try it! It is fishing season in Istanbul. Order your favourite fish along with a cooled Karma Chardonnay Narince. You'll see that life is beautiful :)</div>Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-62345255629388452122011-09-11T22:01:00.000+03:002011-09-11T22:01:23.255+03:00Ardesia Blush Pinot Grigio<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ardesia Blush Pinot Grigio</td></tr>
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I regret that I have not tried a rose wine in this summer while I kept complaining that I can't drink red wine when the weather is so hot. In these last days of summer, I ordered Ardesia Blush Pinot Grigio only because a friend of mine asked me to do so. It was a nice surprise for me because I liked it very mush.<br />
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This is a rose wine with a color of salmon. It is made of 85% Pinot Grigio and 15% Chardonnay. It is very light and refreshing, and it also has a relatively low acidity, which is a good point for me. I drank it along with macaroni with a tomato & basil souce and I think they made a nice pair.<br />
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Please don't do what I did throughout this summer. Give a chance to rose wines and if you have a chance to drink Ardesia Blush Pinot Grigio, give it a chance, too!<br />
<br />Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-41391431767728541222011-09-04T17:24:00.000+03:002011-09-04T17:24:09.412+03:00Sirince WinesSirince is a village that is hidden behind a valley near to Selcuk (Turkey). In earlier dates, Greek people lived there, but afterwards, Turks that had lived in Thessalonika (Greece) moved to this town (exchange of populations btw Greece & Turkey).<br />
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I don't knowmuch about architecture but I believe Greeks (at least the ones who lived in today's Turkish lands) knew a lot about architecture. The villages they left behind seem very cute. This one is a cute Aegean village that contains tens of winehouses and that is heavily dependant on tourism although it is quite far from the sea.<br />
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Sirince's wines, especially fruit wines are very famous. I didn't pay much attention to winehouses first, since I thought they were selling only fruit wines, in which I'm not interested. After a short walk, we saw a winehouse, which also had its production facilities behind. I realized later that this was the only wine production plant in Sirince, Artemis Sirince Winery.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alper & Efe</td></tr>
</tbody></table>We started to taste grape wines first, upon my request. We tasted varietals of Carbernet Sauvignon, Gamay, Bogazkere, Shiraz, and Kalecik Karasi. We chose Gamay and Shiraz (their reserve wine) and put them aside.<br />
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Afterwards, Efe (on the right side) had given as a tour in the factory. This is a winery that is run by a Turkish - German partnership. We saw where the grapes were sequeezed, filtered and rested in steel tanks. Efe described each stage of production in detail but I won't tell you those details as I can't remember all of them.<br />
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After our little tour ended, we started to taste fruit wines. We tasted peach, melon, strawberry, black mulberry, blueberry and blackburry. Our favourites were peach and melon. In the last minute, I also saw that they had varietals of Horozkarasi and Papazkarasi (local grapes). At the end, we had 6 bottles in our hands.<br />
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After we received a few tips and advice about the town from Alper and Efe, we continued to walk around. We left our wines there as we didn't want to carry them around. They offered to send them via courier and said we can also order wines even from Istanbul (min 6 bottles). We didn't accept their offer since we wanted to give some of the wines as present in the next days of our travel. If you'd like to order wines or visit them in Sirince, you may see the necessary information<a href="http://www.akbergwines.com/"> here</a>.<br />
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The wines that we bought are still in their bottles, but I'll let you know when I taste them and share my impression about them with you.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Everything Wine Book (Turkish version)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>There are only a few books about wine written in Turkish. There are many books written in English, but those are rarely translated into Turkish. This one is one of the few Turkish translations about wine. It is written by Barbara Nowak and Beverly Wichman and translated into Turkish by Elif Demir. It starts with basic information about wine and continues with characteristics of wine depending on regions and countries, with history of wine and even with the unexpected incidents such as desaeases or prohibiting which wine business had experienced.<br />
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The book contains short explanations each with their titles, so you don't need to read it like a novel, but you could easily use it as a reference book or could browse it through whenever you wish to read whichever page attracts your attention.<br />
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The negative things for me are that the book does not contain any pictures and that its writing style is a little boring. These are not enough reasons to not to buy the book of course. The book can be an alternative for those who look for a book about wine in Turkish language.<br />
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Wine like a candy! Seriously, this wine has so sweet aromas I doubted that it was a dry wine. When you smell this wine, you fell like smelling a desert with strawberries and cherries. I also smelled a little fume, which was a nice thing balancing the sweetness.<br />
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Kocabag is a winemaker in Kapadokya, the home of Kalecik Karasi. This wine is a soft, thin bodied, typical Kalecik Karasi wine with almost no tannins at all. If you like fruity and easy to drink wines, you make like this wine.Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-11131632572450717782011-08-26T08:35:00.001+03:002011-08-26T08:35:31.507+03:00Camlıbag Cabernet Sauvignon - Kuntra 2009<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Çamlıbağ Cabernet Sauvignon - Kuntra 2009</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Camlibag is one of the well known winemakers in Bozcaada. I didn't try their wines when I was Bozcaada but I had the chance of tasting this one thanks to onlinemahzen's store in Atasehir.<br />
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I know Cabernet Sauvignon has a strong taste but I thing this wine is mostly shaped by Kuntra, as in the case of most Bozcaada wines. I have tasted 3-5 Bozcaada wines in the past year and their common characteristic was that their taste was a little too sharp and bitter.<br />
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To be honest, I'll remember this wine's too sharp and alcoholic and fruity smell. It stayed 3 days in hour refrigerator and I tasted it each day. I liked it best on the third day. Its aromas were milder and taste was softer, but it still had a full and tannic taste.<br />
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In short, this wine has not become one of my favorites, but just because of curiosity and also because I like Bozcaada, I'll continue to taste Bozcaada wines and also Camlibag wines with the hope of discovering something new one day.Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-29467636305068565802011-08-17T21:39:00.000+03:002011-08-17T21:39:56.114+03:00How to open a wine bottle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWUeZYX_UtxaSFwYNDZtifOv5G-pI4Ok1hI09O5IBeY0ZvcqP-QyMiZBzorDap9lh6vGqjceE2VGxUUtE_QOmfC2LVxU5QUBAjYizQZeRpnrtKDiiubuczcako2JBN_HpbF2I-HYCt_iU5/s1600/P1020452.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWUeZYX_UtxaSFwYNDZtifOv5G-pI4Ok1hI09O5IBeY0ZvcqP-QyMiZBzorDap9lh6vGqjceE2VGxUUtE_QOmfC2LVxU5QUBAjYizQZeRpnrtKDiiubuczcako2JBN_HpbF2I-HYCt_iU5/s320/P1020452.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>I am going to show you that opening a wine bottle is not difficult or complicated at all and that a women can do it without help of men. After you learn it, you may still let the men do it and let them feel strong and clever :)<br />
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You need a corkscrew in order to open a wine bottle in a decent way. There are ways to open a wine without them but they are not as "decent" as my way :) A corkscrew can look like the one above or the one below. They both serve the same purpose, but I usually use the upper one since it is more comfortable to use it.<br />
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The common part of all corkscrews is the part that looks like a screw and that you can stick into the cork. Let's see how these things work.<br />
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First, you put the bottle on a table or another flat surface. There is something that covers the upper part of the bottle. I don't know what it is called :) It is something like a hardy paper that covers the top of the bottle. Whatever its name is, you should get rid of it. I usually scratch it with the sharp end of the corkscrew so that I can grasp it with my fingers and take that cover out.<br />
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That's all! As you see, there is nothing to be afraid of. Don't deceive yourself saying that you don't know how to do it or that you can't do it :) Just try !<br />
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Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256624443004157721.post-71698370383161139032011-08-11T15:39:00.000+03:002011-08-11T15:39:47.201+03:00Chateau Petit Bois (2003) Lussac Saint-Emilion<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chateau Petit Bois (2003) Lussac Saint-Emilion</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Last weekend, we were invited to a barbacue party to celebrate a friend's birthday. Instead of wine, we brought a huge bottle of tequila with us. I forgot to take pictures of the tequila bottle, but I can assure you there is not much to talk about it :) It was my first time of tasting tequila, and I believe there is nothing to taste in tequila. It's salt and lemon that makes us think as if it has a taste :) Anyway, I don't think that people drink tequila for its taste.<br />
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Coming to our subject, the wine in the picture was one of the wines in our friend's mother's wine celler. We didn't ask for her permission, so I passed Chateau Margaux bottles and tried to choose a wine that she wouldn't notice easily when dissappeared :)<br />
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As I mentioned in my previous post, most of Bordeaux wines don't provide much information on their label. Therefore, I can't tell you about this wine's grapes or producer this time, but I'll tell you something else. Let's first start with the taste of wine. I tasted it without aerating and it had a nice but a little too strong taste, moderate tannin and medium body. Its color was a clear and vivid bordeaux as if it was a young wine, altough it was a 2003 vintage.<br />
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Then I thought the wine would get better after a little aerating and I asked for a dekanter. Instead of a dekanter, my friend brought the device in the above picture. I saw it for the first time and honestly, I didn't believe first that it would work. In a few seconds, I was the biggest fan of this device! You pour a wine with sharp and intense taste through it and the wine that is filled into your glass is a well aerated, soft, and well rounded wine as if it was aerated in a dekanter for 20-30 minutes.<br />
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I couldn't understand how this thing works but it really works! This one is bought in UK and I saw that it can be bought from internet. Coming back to the wine, it is also worth to try, it was a very very nice, soft wine especially after we poured it through the aerator.Elif Ersin Sarıgülhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16256706946402388670noreply@blogger.com0