Turkish wine – flying high

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A panoply of fascinating flavours and innovative wine styles, all dependent on the country's rich heritage of indigenous grape varieties. See more on Saturday.

Pity Türkiye’s wine producers. There is such potential there. With its rich mix of indigenous grape varieties and terrain that varies from seaside vineyards on the Aegean coast, Thracian vineyards that share characteristics with south-eastern Bulgaria across the border, ancient vineyards with Hittite ancestry in Central Anatolia and wines with influences from neighbouring Georgia, Armenia and Syria, there are so many stories to tell.

But nowadays wine producers cannot advertise, cannot pour their wines in public...