

New Year, New Palate: A 12-Month Turkish Wine Challenge
Fine Turkish Wine offers a month-by-month tasting plan to challenge your wine palate. New to Turkish grapes? To wine generally? Take part in Fine Turkish Wine’s 12-month wine challenge and expand your wine horizons!

Andrea Lemieux
Jan 15 min read


Adventures on the Turkish Wine Trail - November 2025
Experience the wonderful people of Turkish wine as Rob Icsezen shares his recent adventure on the Turkish Wine trail!

Rob Icsezen
Dec 2, 20256 min read


Feature: The Story Behind The Essential Guide to Turkish Wine
Curious about Turkish wine but don’t know where to start? The Essential Guide to Turkish Wine has the answers. This month’s feature story covers the first major book dedicated to Turkish wine and how an American expat came to write it.

Andrea Lemieux
Nov 1, 20256 min read


Feature: Celebrating the Ancient Ritual of the Grape Harvest in Turkey
From Mesopotamian gods, Hittite kings, and the most famous wine god of them all, wine culture in Turkey has grown, adapted, and endured to today, but always stemming from the same root - the grape vine and harvest.

Andrea Lemieux
Oct 1, 20255 min read


Exploring the Wine Routes of Turkey: Urla Bağ Yolu (The Urla Wine Route)
The Aegean coast in Turkey is more than beaches and kite surfing! Welcome to Urla, host of some of Turkey’s most prestigious wine real estate. Join us for an exploration of the Urla Bağ Yolu.

Andrea Lemieux
Aug 31, 20258 min read


Feature: An Interview with Kelly Voelkel, Fine Turkish Wine’s New Sales Manager
Meet Kelly Voelkel, new Sales Manager for Fine Turkish Wine! As a seasoned industry professional with many choices, Kelly Voelkel chose the proverbial "road less traveled" by signing on with Fine Turkish Wine. And we scored a coup by bringing him on board with our small but growing family!

Andrea Lemieux
Aug 2, 20255 min read


Feature: Exploring Turkish Wine Routes - Trakya Bağ Rotası
Turkey is home to six official wine routes, each offering unique flavors and opportunities to visit wineries, explore the country’s gastronomy, and even enjoy each region’s more traditional tourism. This month, Fine Turkish Wine explores the Trakya Bağ Rotası.

Andrea Lemieux
Jul 1, 202510 min read


Turkey’s Centenarian Vines
While Turkey's modern wine industry is relatively young, stretching back to around the 1930s, wine heritage in Turkey stretches back to before recorded time. So, with eight millennia of winemaking under its belt, Turkey redefines what it means to be an old world wine country.

Andrea Lemieux
May 31, 20254 min read


Fine Turkish Wine: The Road So Far
While on the outside it looks like Fine Turkish Wine recently finished its first year, on the inside the story has been a little different! But, with wines officially available for more than a year now, we reflect on the road so far: on the challenges, what we learned, and the successes we had.

Andrea Lemieux
Apr 30, 20257 min read


Remembering the Fallen Soldiers of Gallipoli
On the western edge of Turkish Thrace, a small peninsula extends off the mainland, separating the Aegean Sea from the Sea of Marmara. It...

Andrea Lemieux
Apr 1, 20258 min read


Feature: The Women of Turkish Wine
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, we lift a glass to the amazing women who elevate the Turkish wine industry!

Andrea Lemieux
Mar 4, 20256 min read


Feature: Recovery Still Elusive Two Years After Devastating Earthquake
One of the areas hardest-hit by the 2023 earthquake in Turkey was Antakya and the ancient city Hatay, home to Antioche Vineyards.

Andrea Lemieux
Feb 4, 20253 min read


Feature: Drink Less, Savor More; a Sustainable Alternative to Dry January
Thıs month we offer a more sustainable alternative to "Dry January" - drink less, savor more!

Andrea Lemieux
Jan 6, 20253 min read


Feature: Celebrating the New Year Like a Turk
Put on your best red outfit, grab a pomegranate, and get ready to feast! It’s time to celebrate New Year’s like a Turk!

Andrea Lemieux
Dec 1, 20244 min read


Feature: An Introduction to Turkish Wine History
Turkish wine history stretches back thousands of years to before recorded history. This Turkish Wine History 101 gives a brief overview.

Andrea Lemieux
Nov 1, 20245 min read


Feature: Turkish Wine Tourism as Sustainable, Responsible Tourism
Discover an unexplored gem: Turkish wine tourism!

Andrea Lemieux
Oct 1, 20243 min read


Feature: Akın Gürbüz, Preeminent Turkish Winemaker
Meet Akın Gürbüz, one of Turkey's preeminent winemakers who achieved his dream of opening his own winery through years of hard work

Andrea Lemieux
Aug 30, 20244 min read
