History
From Homer’s Iliad to the pages of Forbes magazine, the indigenous wines of Turkey, a land identified by molecular archeologists as the birthplace of wild vitis vinifera, are once again making history. Modern wine culture emerged in Turkey when Gulor Winery, and the boutique wineries that followed its lead, picked up where the Turkish government left off after introducing French grape varieties to Thrace in the 1950s. Cabernet Sauvignon and ...