Ergenekon vineyards
was founded in the year 2000 by Dr. Çağatay Ergenekon, a stock exchange expert,
and Dr. Şeyla Ergenekon, an environmental economist and wine writer, on the
Galipoli Peninsula with the purpose of contribution to Tukey’s viticulture.by
producing good quality grapes and vine plants. There are a total of 30,000
plants on 125 decares of land which consist of top quality, “A class” clones of
the world’s best known wine grape varieties and main wine and table grapes of
the Thrace region. Based on research carried out throughout the vine regions
abroad and in Turkey on the selection of quality grapes and clonal selection
among these varieties, a collection has been formed in the Ergenekon vineyards
with the top quality clones of especially wine grapes, that reflect the varietal
characteristics in the best way.
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LATEST
NEWS
The
uprooting of our open rooted baby vines has been completed. It was a
pleasure to see that our plants that had developed very healthy
shoots during the summer months, had also formed very healthy roots.
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Our 26
decare Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard is for sale. We had to take this
difficult decision due to operational reasons however we console
ourselves with the idea of selling this parcel to a wine enthusiast
dreaming to produce his/her own wine.
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We were in the October issue of the FORBES magazine with our views
on the country's viticulture.
Vineyards
established by our vine plants grow tremendously well, which is our
biggest source of happiness.
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Would you like to see how we uproot the vine plants?
If you wish
to listen to the Şeyla's views in the audio file named "After
Thousands of Years Wine Making Grows in Turkey" which was
broadcasted on the NPR as of August 1, 2004, click
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3808661.
