Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Other Local Resorts & Areas => Uzumlu Discussion Forum => Topic started by: brian1945 on March 04, 2008, 13:25:30 PM
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can someone tell me where is the best place to buy Uzumlu wine and what is the price?
thanks
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Lace shop opposite the Uzumlu Wine House.......5TL for a litre. Bought a bottle yesterday and polished it off in the warm sunshine this afternoon! 8)
7.5 TL in the Winehouse itself....almost undrinkable, we even left the taster:(
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Originally posted by tribalelder
Lace shop opposite the Uzumlu Wine House.......5TL for a litre. Bought a bottle yesterday and polished it off in the warm sunshine this afternoon! 8)
7.5 TL in the Winehouse itself....almost undrinkable, we even left the taster:(
Definitely, the lady in the lace shop will happily supply tasters for you. Its very drinkable - almost like a port. My first taste of winehouse wine was hilarious - I shuddered so visibly and loudly that the guy behind the bar thought I was having a fit !!!- ugggh, never again !
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Thanks for that - I paid 10 lira in Winehouse for a litre - will have words!! And you are right - it was strong but a bit rough!!
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Be very careful you dont know what it will do to your inards urghhhh
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I have been in the wine trade for many years and the following comments regarding Uzumlu wine could be of interest -
AN UNUSUAL "Rough as Guts" wine that has the distinctive bouquet of old and ill animals. It is best drunk with the teeth clenched to prevent the ingestion of seeds, stalks and skins. Connoisseurs will appreciate the slight tannic taste of burnt shag feathers and soiled medical dressings. Possessors of a cultivated palate admire the initial assault on the taste buds which comes from the careful and loving blend of circus cage floor hosings with perished jock straps. The maturing is done in Uzumlu abottoir hogs heads and gives it a very distinctive nose. In Fethiye this wine is marketed as "The Saviour Brand" (as nine out of ten people who drink it for the first time exclaim ---------"JE-E-ESUS CHRIST"
CAUTION : Avoid contact with the eyes and open cuts.
Keep away from "Naked Flames" (both old and new)
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:odon't think I will bother
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Have to agree with sporran, the worst wine I ever had was at the Uzumlu wine house, I could hardly believe they could serve something quite so putrid.
I would definitely accept the offer to taste the wine before serving in case it is corked. If it is, it's a bonus.
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Originally posted by sporran
AN UNUSUAL "Rough as Guts" wine that has the distinctive bouquet of old and ill animals. It is best drunk with the teeth clenched to prevent the ingestion of seeds, stalks and skins. Connoisseurs will appreciate the slight tannic taste of burnt shag feathers and soiled medical dressings. Possessors of a cultivated palate admire the initial assault on the taste buds which comes from the careful and loving blend of circus cage floor hosings with perished jock straps. The maturing is done in Uzumlu abottoir hogs heads and gives it a very distinctive nose. In Fethiye this wine is marketed as "The Saviour Brand" (as nine out of ten people who drink it for the first time exclaim ---------"JE-E-ESUS CHRIST"
CAUTION : Avoid contact with the eyes and open cuts.
Keep away from "Naked Flames" (both old and new)
I`ll have to buy some, it sounds like just the thing I`ve been looking for to clean the inside of my Soba. :D
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I think they bottle it AFTER it has been used for that purpose
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Originally posted by sporran
I have been in the wine trade for many years and the following comments regarding Uzumlu wine could be of interest -
AN UNUSUAL "Rough as Guts" wine that has the distinctive bouquet of old and ill animals. It is best drunk with the teeth clenched to prevent the ingestion of seeds, stalks and skins. Connoisseurs will appreciate the slight tannic taste of burnt shag feathers and soiled medical dressings. Possessors of a cultivated palate admire the initial assault on the taste buds which comes from the careful and loving blend of circus cage floor hosings with perished jock straps. The maturing is done in Uzumlu abottoir hogs heads and gives it a very distinctive nose. In Fethiye this wine is marketed as "The Saviour Brand" (as nine out of ten people who drink it for the first time exclaim ---------"JE-E-ESUS CHRIST"
CAUTION : Avoid contact with the eyes and open cuts.
Keep away from "Naked Flames" (both old and new)
:D LOL :D Very good narrative Brian 8)
Seriously - Why aren't there lots of great (cheaper) wines in Turkey :( They have all the right ingredients to make some great wines, red & white :)
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There weren't any corks in my Wine House wine! Just an old plastic coke bottle wrapped in a newspaper!!
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I am sure there will be some well made "cheaper" wines somewhere but I think they are hard to find. I agree that they have the right ingredients but it could be their methods of production. Dont know where Uzumlu wine is actually produced, no evidence of modern stainless steel vats in the area and temperature control is important in a hot country. Must try and find out more about wine production in Uzumlu - they are meant to be famous for it?
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saw Memet and Hasan with red feet last September
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Most Uzumlu wine seems to be made in small cellars under the houses.No stainless steel just big plastic drums and plastic syphon tubes. Seems to work though 8)
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Originally posted by tribalelder
Most Uzumlu wine seems to be made in small cellars under the houses.No stainless steel just big plastic drums and plastic syphon tubes. Seems to work though 8)
:o Have you got red feet TB :P Got any spare ;)
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Originally posted by cef
Seriously - Why aren't there lots of great (cheaper) wines in Turkey :( They have all the right ingredients to make some great wines, red & white :)
There are plenty of great wines available if you don't mind paying the price. Unfortunatly due to the combination of the tax more than doubling the price of a bottle and that Turkish wine drinkers are in the minority, well dicerning ( ie. wealthy) ones anyway :), makes the good stuff pretty expensive.
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Sadly cef I find that my very in depth quality control checks deplete the entire stocks.....but for you ...????:D 8)
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Originally posted by philrose
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Originally posted by cef
Seriously - Why aren't there lots of great (cheaper) wines in Turkey :( They have all the right ingredients to make some great wines, red & white :)
There are plenty of great wines available if you don't mind paying the price. Unfortunatly due to the combination of the tax more than doubling the price of a bottle and that Turkish wine drinkers are in the minority, well dicerning ( ie. wealthy) ones anyway :), makes the good stuff pretty expensive.
Hi Phil, only thing to do then is to start a campaign for more Wine Drinkers in Turkey :P
The UK I think, top's most country's 'Tax & VAT' add-ons, I don't understand how I can get a 'Good' glass of wine here for £1.80 but have to pay 5/6/7lira (min £2.00)for a glass of (mostly) yuk! stuff in the Fethiye area :(
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Originally posted by tribalelder
Sadly cef I find that my very in depth quality control checks deplete the entire stocks.....but for you ...????:D 8)
:) 8) TB, My friend for life ;) I'll even bring me own bottle for 'decanting purposes' :D ;)
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Sadly I have to say one of the only things Stu and I miss when we are in Calis is a decent bottle of Wine, we would happily treat the grapes and then test it till the cows come home...hic!!....instead we will continue to put a couple of bottles in the suitcase as normal along with Olga's Cider!!!:D:D
June
P.S. Keith I am fed up with being helpful member can I have another name please?.
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Or even 'Tread the grapes'!!must have had one too many tonight....
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June, think yourself lucky - I am just "member"! I would love to be helpful - Keith, please?
Back to the wine - on our first visit to Turkey, we brought two bottles with us, bought at the airport. When they had gone, desperate measures (well, we were staying up a mountain, not easily accessible to run and get more) we opened the bottle of Dikmann which was left in the fridge for us. YUK - that was undrinkable (actually, thinking back - we DID drink it in the end. Well I said desperate measures .........lol)
Julie
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Originally posted by june
along with Olga's Cider!!!:D:D
P.S. Keith I am fed up with being helpful member can I have another name please?.
I think your chances of getting a new name have very much reduced since I read the above comment ;)
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Now now Keith, you know very well I always make enough room for a bottle of 'Magners' for you in my case...don't you!! :)
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This is a tip as how to make a crap bottle of red wine a little better - - shake the bottle furiously, this will areate the wine and the difference can be significant. Dont do it with a bottle of good wine, you will ruin it.
Give it a try!!!
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Here's another tip specifically for Uzumlu wine. Areate the wine by pouring it into a drain.
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sort of recycle you mean..
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Does anyone know if Uzumlu grapes are good to eat? If they are then they may not make good wine.
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They must be wonderful to eat if that is true ;)
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Another interesting fact, if Uzumlu wine in any way resembles port then it is most definitely OFF!!!
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The one I had definitely resembled port - the bouquet of the port of Grimsby
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Hi every one, I did not think a simple question would get such a large response , thanks to you all it was informative and amusing
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Hi Brian, its nice to get a response to your original question, we all like a nice glass of wine whether its white or red. Just seems that despite Uzumlu being a well known wine region it must now be a challenge to us all to find a nice wine from that very area. Lets keep trying & not give up.
Cheers, Niall