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Posts about my adventures in wine :)

Syriac Wine

Those who know me will not be overly surprised that I came across a local wine tradition while visiting Mardin and the Tur Abdin region in east Turkey the other week. The bleak limestone plateau of Tur Abdin is of … Continue reading

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Кагор (Kagor) Wine – Cool Story

On recent travels in Eastern Europe a quick visit to Tesco reveals a completely new world of wine from the likes of Georgia, Moldova and all sorts of other places in the extreme east of Europe that are not exactly … Continue reading

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2009 – Regent – Spätlese – Rhineland, Germany

Ok – something different. This is a light summer wine, low alcohol at only 9.5%, very fruity and also low acidity, so again something I’d not normally try without the expectation of impending heartburn. It’s made from the regent grape. … Continue reading

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Egri 2006 Leanyka – Szarvas Karoly – Eger, Hungary

Well, here’s something a little different on the wine front. I got this in the wine town of Eger in central Hungary back in 2008. Yes, there’s a story to this one too – I like there being a story … Continue reading

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2005 – August Cellars – Gewürztraminer (Oregon)

2005-August Cellars - Gewürztraminer

Sunday April 24th, 2011 It’s been sunny warm summer-like weather for over a week now. I decided that this wine needed to be uncorked to see how it’s turned out. I picked it up in 2006 during a couple of … Continue reading

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