Icmeler Online Holiday Forum & Reviews - Turkey

Hi all

What are your opinions of wine in Icmeler. I have found one that is not too bad called Chankaya (exuse the spelling) are there any other reccomendations???


John xxx

We don't really drink a lot of wine in Turkey because it's quite expensive, but we have tried some - Villa Doluca and Kavaklidere were both quite nice.

Our favourite is Villa Doluca Beyaz. A couple of years ago it was on offer in Tansas and so we bought an extra few bottles to bring home with us. That was the first year that they charged us for luggage being overweight at Dalaman so our wine ended up by being quite expensive

As I am an expert on wine hahahaha

I bought 50 bottles of red for 6 lira a bottle in February

Some bugger keeps pinching them cos only 11 left

Nobody's pinching them, youre putting it in Colettes Sangria..... .......
Steve

We found a wine called Saltanya (sp?). Very pleasant and refreshing little number

Hi cummo,
Seriously, a couple of years ago we found a nice Red, take a look at this link viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5200&p=43927&hilit=senfoni#p43927
Steve

My question is why wine is so expensive in Turkey - especially when its local wine.

We drink Cankaya - it was considerably more expensive in Icmeler than in our local Turkish restaurant!!!!! ??????

Last year we 'discovered ' a very nice red wine at Tandoori Sizzler and also at Lemon Tree. Reasonably priced for Turkey as a lot have already pointed out. Also available in a couple of the supermarkets for 12 lira (the one passed Florida away from ICR office).Only 11 weeks to go and sample some more.

Oh yeah would help if I told you what it was called!!! DIKKMAN.
No thats not referring to me for forgetting either.

LJM wrote:My question is why wine is so expensive in Turkey - especially when its local wine.

We drink Cankaya - it was considerably more expensive in Icmeler than in our local Turkish restaurant!!!!! ??????

Because the Turkish Government have placed an extremely high duty tax on wine, I believe currently approximatelt 50% of the price for a bottle of wine is tax.

Dave

my sister in law drinks agorra i think its called.Which from bad memory is a red and i had a drop and is nice,i think it was around 18 tl last year so around 8 pound 50

We work with kavaklıdere company which is the best company in turkey
they have KAVAK dry white wine and rose and dikmen dry red wine with full body
and 4 lira for the forum members...cheers

Hakan & Levent

Well...we will be in for wine with our meal.....but don't forget Zena's Champagne promise from 2011.

Today we have been married for 31 years
So to celebrate could you please send the following to Rugby UK

2 Avci Borek
1 Topkapi Kebab
1 Plank Steak
2 Pancake with Honey
1 Strongbow
1 Efes (Large) (( For Zena))


See you 04.06.11

John & Zena

Over the years I have tried a few different white wines and decided that overall I prefer Kavak. The thing that I find difficult is that it's rarely cold enough and very few places have ice making machines. Wine tends to be served in a wine bucket full of cold water with a few ice cubes floating around. Not surprising if the ice has to be bought by the bag but not good enough to keep the wine chilled.

How about it Tandori Sizzler - do you have an ice making machine?

I have never been brave enough to try the red but maybe this year.............

Patsiej