Narince

I was in a major supermarket during a Mediteranean food and wine promotion when I spotted some wines from unusual places, including wines from Turkey and Lebanon. Amongst the Turkish wines are ones made from Kalicek Karasis and Bogazkere, but here is a bottle I had not seen before, a Narince Cappadocia 2011. I had to look up Narince on my Android phone to find out that this was indeed a grape I had never met. Narince is an indigenous grape from Turkey mainly grown in Tokat and also in Cappadocia. Used both as a table grape and to make wines, it can yield both dry and off-dry wines of a straw yellow colour, with floral and citrus aromas, of medium to full body, balanced with high acidity.

As for this wine, it was a nice golden yellow, with a sweet acid slightly fruity nose (this is obviously an off-dry wine). The wine was sweet acid and a bit fruity on the palate with a nice acid backbone in support.