This is a varietal wine made from the indigenous Turkish grape Kalecik
Karasi. There was a large Turkish wine-making concern on show at last year's
Wine Fair, and I being ever adventurous, made a special beeline for their
stand. Grown mainly in the Kalecik district of Ankara Province (Karasi, I
think, means black, hence the name means the black grape of Kalecik), it
produces some of Turkey's best red wine. It produces wines with aromas of red
fruit and boiled candy, medium body, low tannins and crisp acidity. Deep ruby
with a slightly sweet stewed plum nose, this wine was slightly dilute on entry
with acid spicy slightly fruity palate. There was a good tannic slightly acid
backbone for support.
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