Turkey – current releases

Wines of Turkey's eight participating wineries brought their wines to London's Vinopolis earlier this year for their inaugural London tasting. Julia and I managed to taste 52 of them between us.

I have to say that I did not find the selection on show quite as exciting as those I was lucky enough to taste during my visit to Turkey in 2009, described in Young Turks of note. But the visiting producers seemed to have been briefed to show wines that were priced reasonably enough for Britain's notoriously penny-pinching professional wine buyers. If this is true, it is perhaps a...