Kuzubag, Kalecik Karasi, Turkish Red

With its refined plum colour, a blast of forest fruit aromas on the nose and clove notes on the back palate, this wine’s tannins are balanced with a lively acidity, medium tannins and a long finish.

The Kalecik Karası grape feels right at home in the terroir of Çal and has adapted to it with ease. Described as “Turkey’s answer to Burgundy Reds” by the IWC judges.

If we look at some mythology, Dionysus, who discovered wine by picking grapes from the vine on the wall of the cave where he grew up in Nysa (today's Sultanhisar), squeezing the juice, founded Dionysopolis in Çal, Ortaköy in the Menderes River basin to celebrate this. He ensured the development of vineyards in Çal and its surroundings. It is also known that the best grapes of the ancient period were grown in Çal, Baklan, Bekilli and Güney, above the Büyük Menderes River. As a result, the mythological story of Dionysus, the God of Wine, who took the vineyards grown here and took them to overseas countries and told them about wine, and the city he founded in Çal in his name, is like this.