where are the good wine shops

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
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Message Posted:
04/04/2009 21:14

Are there any good wine outlets East side ?

rcroton


Joined: 05/06/2008
Posts: 192

Message Posted:
04/04/2009 21:28

Good question, i asked a few days ago and was told about the offy in Catalkoy. Not very good if u ask me but of course open to personal choice. If anyone does know that would be great.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
04/04/2009 21:50

Pipie - what do you consider to be "good wine"?

Coachie



Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
04/04/2009 22:03

Jean/Paul.. Areasonable South Africanor Chilean.Any ideas...

Pipie


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Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
04/04/2009 22:19

The -wicks

In the uk I buy



Cloudy Bay Pelorus New Zealand, Sparkling Wine



Wolf Blass Yellow Label Chardonnay



Domaine Huet, Le Mont Vouvray, Loire,



Usually from waitrose , do you know if they stock any of these or similar on the east side ? long shot but you never know

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
04/04/2009 23:04

Pipie you will be lucky to find any of those wines here. We do stock good italian Austrilian And French wines. I will check for you if we can get any of the above but we are west side xxxxx

Pipie


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Message Posted:
04/04/2009 23:14

Thankyou Lilli , how kind , we are going to visit you on our next visit , as you have fab reviews .

The-Wicks


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Message Posted:
05/04/2009 01:42

Pipie/Coachie - as our Lilli says, very doubtful you'll get anything like that in TRNC (that's Mr Wick, the wine buff, not me - Vino Collapso for me). Possibly best to stick with the best of what they offer locally. Or, of course, go to Guido's (which is where we will be eating, particularly if we want some decent wine with our meal).



Keep us posted if you have any success please!!



Regards



J

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
05/04/2009 08:14

I have yet to find any real good quality wines in Cyprus as a result usually drink the turkish wines however for a change I do go to catalkoy wine shop and buy some south african wine which seems to range from 8.95 tl upwards.

Carbotec


Joined: 28/02/2009
Posts: 98

Message Posted:
05/04/2009 08:52

I am surprised that no-one has mentioned St Hilarion wines, the winery is in Gecitkoy, (not sure of the spelling) this wine is excellent, and very reasonable.

skybluesam


Joined: 24/12/2008
Posts: 447

Message Posted:
05/04/2009 08:52

Try the Argentinian Trivento, very quaffable, and reasonably priced as well, especially in the 3ltr wine-boxes.

Nudger.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
05/04/2009 09:57

pipie

why not try some of the turkish mainland wine?

i have and found it pretty good. i can't figure out why it is not more widely available elsewhere in the world.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
05/04/2009 10:35

I tend to stick to the Turkish wine. Red, Villa Doluca, White, either Cankaya or Nevsah. Here in UK, Faustino 1 a great Rioja. But that's just my taste. Oh sorry Jean just said that I'll actually drink anything, how well she knows me.



P

waddo


Joined: 29/11/2008
Posts: 1966

Message Posted:
05/04/2009 10:36

Hur Deniz - good stock and lots of choice.

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
05/04/2009 10:40

Why dont you all just drink vinegar lol, that is what wine tastes like to me no matter how good a bottle it is...as you can see, I am quite the connoisseur lol.

goonerstan



Joined: 14/04/2008
Posts: 397

Message Posted:
05/04/2009 11:32

most turkish i find not to my taste, ok for cleaning teeth, i like most moldovian wine especially cagor very difficult to find maybe have to go to moldovia to get makes it a bit expensive

Pipie


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Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
05/04/2009 11:35

Thanks everyone .Firestarter i will try the Turkish wine , is there anything nearest to a chardonnay ? Cheers

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
05/04/2009 16:50

Does anybody know if you can get blossom hill zinfandal around girni

pls





thanks tootie

Arthur


Joined: 04/11/2008
Posts: 687

Message Posted:
05/04/2009 17:42

Tootie- why would you want Blossom Hill ?



Unless you need to clean your drains!!

parkview



Joined: 12/03/2009
Posts: 1123

Message Posted:
05/04/2009 18:18

Have got to say as much as it grieves me Marks and Sparks in the South do really good wine and about a 3rd of the UK M&S, very surprised at how reasonable it is, have to say usually stick to local wine but sometimes like to have some decent wine in the house and found M&S about the best for sav poullly fume, merlot, cab sav and sance serre.

Tootie


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Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
05/04/2009 22:14

RE Msg 19....

Arthur..



I dont really drink wine so cant comment.



Its for my mum when she comes over.



Most other wine (dosent agree with her as she puts it), Lol.

Says its an age thing?



Bless.





tootie

fire starter


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Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
06/04/2009 10:16

if you go into lemar most bottles state what type of wine they are and from what region in turkey.

my brother in law had a wine shop in the uk and they will be out in june so i will get him to give his views on the different turkish wines and comparisons to other wines.

he has been around the world on wine tastings so i guess he would be qualified to judge.

Arek Naw


Joined: 29/08/2008
Posts: 75

Message Posted:
06/04/2009 10:35

Ever wondered why you never see any Turkish wines in Tesco, Sainsburys et al?

How about this for an oxymoron? A good Turkish wine!

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
06/04/2009 10:38

i would say more like they have ignorant buyers.(buyers not customers)

they are also the ones who call hellim halloumi remember!