Well everythings better in Spain, In It? Just saying!?
Not everything, but the wine certainly is!
It's always been something that I found curious - Turkey has some of the best soil for producing grapes, and coupled with the climate in the current wine growing areas, it should be churning out gallons of decent quality wines, right across the price range. I know that in recent years the producers have had to contend with a government that would rather they simply weren't there, but even before the AKP went on their anti alcohol crusade it was the same story.
Turkey is capable of producing stunning wines. I know, I've tried a few - but they come at a price you would baulk at for everyday drinking, even on a free spending holiday. So why not let this quality filter down through the price range? I don't know the answer to that one, and I wonder if the producers do either.
Interestingly, when Yengeç first started up, I seem to remember that their wine selection (no list, just a trolley full of bottles!) was pretty much all imported. Mostly New World stuff and we always speculated as to how they got their stock as everything was 30tl! Black painted cigarette boats off loading cases of NZ SB at three in morning mibbe...
JF