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Taste Turkey at the LIWF
Wines of Turkey is upping its presence at this year’s London Wine Fair with an array of tutored tastings featuring the best of Turkish wine to show what its producers are capable of and how best to use the wines in an on-trade environment.
Turkish wines have steadily been generating praise from several corners of the trade of late.
Jancis Robinson MW recently stated: “Turkey’s wine producers are fiercely ambitious about quality, open to what’s going on elsewhere and with a huge ambition to export.”
Caroline Gilby MW, who will present one of the tastings, added: “My recent visit to the vineyards of Turkey was a real revelation and voyage of discovery. I uncovered a combination of genuinely exciting wines, distinctive and high quality local grapes and a long and fascinating history.”
On Tuesday 17 May, the first day of the fair, at 11.30am, Isa Bal MS, head sommelier of The Fat Duck, will give a tasting of the best Turkish wines in the UK on-trade at the Wines of Turkey stand, G45.
On Thursday 19 May he will appear again at the IWSC stand (G25) to give a seminar on the “Best of the New Turkish Wines” at 11am.
Gilby is set to explore the use of both indigenous and international varieties in Turkey at 11am on Wednesday 18 May at the stand and in the Masterclass theatre at 16.30pm on the same day, Charles Metcalfe, chairman of the IWC, will present the “Top Turkish Wines” seminar.
Rupert Millar, 11.05.2011