White Table's award winning Rose Wine

[kele]

The guy here is heavily promoting Iris Rose Wine from the Buyulubag Vineyard as being the ‘best rose wine in the World 2011’.

Whilst it does appear to be a good example of a Rose, I’m not convinced that it merits the price of 44tr a bottle or 10tr a glass.

My big problem however is that I can find no mention whatever anywhere on the Internet of just which International Wine Competition it has won! So it appears the only person banging a drum for this wine is the guy at White Table himself, which is odd. Can anyone help please?

We’ve had a couple of meals there lately, mainly due to the recommendations on this site, and our curiosity to try this wine. On both occasions the service was slow, and so say at the least, pretentious.

We’re not sure is the White Table has fully grasped the hard commercial reality of the restaurant business in Kalkan in 2011, overpriced burgers and salads, and wine you can’t pin down to an award certainty raise some concerns for us.


Linkback: https://www.enjoykalkan.com/forum/index.php?topic=8195.0

[mark]

Don't know the restaurant nor the wine, but this is what I found..

The award:
http://www.challengeduvin.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&tmpl=resultat-en&theme=recherche2011

The vineyard:
http://www.buyulubag.com/eng/index.html

It would have to be very good for that price and if the service is poor, the best wine is not going to make for a good visit.

Mark

[Alysa]

The Iris rose wine 2008 has actually won the siver medal in a competition in France.

To read more about the wine, other Turkish wines and their awards follow this link http://www.kalkanparc.com/bestwines.pdf

The owner of Parc Kalkan restaurant used to have a winery in Izmir and is passionate about promoting decent Turkish wines at reasonable prices.

If any one else has any more questions im sure Cenk will be happy to help!

[whiteonyx]

we found the White Tables food to be excellent and the reason for the food taking some time to arrive was that everything was made to order.

White table isn't a fast food bar and their attention to quality is their aim, when on holiday, whats the rush?

We thought that the ros'e wine was great and bearing in mind, some restaurants are selling LAL ros'e between 45 - 54 T/L, i don't mind paying for a good wine rather than spending a couple of pounds less and getting (just) acceptable plonk.

The Kalamaki is selling the award winning Lykia wines and is doing very well as some of us prefer quality not quantity.

Kalkan does have some of the best food in Turkey, why spoil that experience by drinking average wine? 

[White Table]

The Awards of the vineyard and Iris Rose maybe checked from the link.

http://www.buyulubag.com/eng/index.html

Thank you for the comments we would like to improve our service according to the feedback we get from you. As said on the upper topic we are not a fast food joint, our average complimentary appetizers arrive in 4-5 min after order, starters if ordered arrives after 12-15 min according to the type and the mains arrive another 12-15 min after the appetizers.
We just try to offer something different at reasonable prices. 

Here is a link to find the retail price of the wine so you may compare with other retail prices of different brand wines and see how low we adjusted our profit margin so we may bring you good quality wine for reasonable prices

http://www.barcelonakav.com/ps/saraplar/123-iris-roze.html

[whiteonyx]

well replied White Table.

[KalkanKath]

I'm certainly not an expert on wine but I can vouch for the quality of the food and the service at White Table. Everything is freshly cooked and beautifully presented - the menu is a little bit different to the norm; nothing too heavy and overpowering but certainly creative and at reasonable prices considering its proximity to the harbour. My husband and I really enjoyed our visit there. Would definitely go again.

[virgin mary]

drinking enough of the stuff can someone tell me is there any trips or anything where you can do some wine tasting and go to the vineyards? we did a tour in france of the vineyards and it was fantastic we learnt so much, just wondered if there was anything similar in kalkan??

[Chucky]

Hi Virgin mary,
here is a link to a post about a visit to the Likya Vineyard
http://enjoykalkan.com/forum/index.php?topic=6396.0
Joan

[Bdancer]

I loved White table and the people running it are a genuine friendly couple (and no I'm connected). It's nice to have something a little different, and I enjoy a good glass of Rose and White, which is what they offer. I have only ever heard positive comments from people who have eaten there. We will be visiting again in September

Isis

[Zorba the Geek]

We, (a party of 7) will be arriving in Kalkan in late September, Could anyone advise where White Table is located in Kalkan as I would like to try it, And the wine in question?

Many Thanks

Mike

[Bdancer]

White table is along the the first road up from and parallel to the harbour, and opposite Salt & Pepper, it's only quite small, but we think that's part of its charm

VirginMary - we visited the Lykia vinyard last september, we went to Elamli and then popped in on the way back, it's worth a visit, again a family owned small vinyard. As we there in sept the vines were full and they let us have wonder through them. We also did some tastings which resulted in a few purchases, probably best to go at the start of your holiday if you are planning on buying a few bottles

Isis

[Zorba the Geek]

Thanks Isis