Yapincak An Indigenous Grape of Turkey

<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 18px; margin: 0px;"> <!--StartFragment--><span style= "font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">We don’t get to drink or taste many Turkish wines and I was so excited when we chose Yapincak for the letter Y on Winephabet Street. We reached out to Andrea Lemieux who is known as the</span> <a name= "http://https://thequirkycork.com/" id= "http://https://thequirkycork.com/"></a><a href= "http://https//thequirkycork.com/"><span style= "font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">Quirky Cork</span></a> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">and a champion in Turkish Wines to be our guest. She has just published a book</span> <span style= "font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">The Essential Guide to Turkish Wine</span> <span style= "font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">and it’s available on Amazon.</span></p> <p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 18px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">Winephabet Street is a monthly series where Lori Budd of</span> <a href= "http://https//dracaenawines.com/exploring-the-wine-glass/"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;"> Exploring the Wine Glass</span></a> <span style= "font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">and I work our way through the alphabet exploring wine and wine regions one letter at a time. The show is live on the third Monday at 8pm and is free, but you must register to attend. Put it on your calendar, pour yourself a glass of wine and hang out with us.</span></p> <p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 18px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">Yapincak is pronounced ya-pin-juck. The grape produces a wide range of wines from dry aged in stainless steel or oak and sparkling. It is grown in the Marmara and Aegean regions of Turkey areound the Gallipoli Peninsula. Yapincak is also known as Kinali Yapincak. There are not a lot of wineries that are growing this grape and making wine with it. This was a real treat