Wine
A Wine Renaissance
The 20th century saw a significant decline in Turkey’s ancient wine industry. Now a handful of winemakers, activists, researchers and educators are starting to uncover the country’s vast terroir — despite barriers imposed by Turkey’s conservative government. To break into the new, they are in large part rediscovering the old.
War and Wine in Karabakh
The bottles of a local wine once produced in a region that today is under Azerbaijani control have become a rare piece for collectors. For Armenians, they´re also a stark reminder of what was lost in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Wine Critics of Early Islam
The language used by early Arab poets to appraise wine shows striking parallels to the style of wine criticism we know today. Arab and Muslim poets writing hundreds of years ago used a vocabulary to evaluate wine that would only become current in the West in the late 20th century.