The Birth of a Cult: Screaming Eagle and Reflections on Turkish Winemaking l o g

Turkey was introduced to what is now commonly known as “omnibus legislation-torba yasa” in the 1980s, though it wasn’t called that at the time.

It is impossible not to notice how technological developments over the last twenty years have influenced, and perhaps quietly mortgaged, our lives.

Robert Camuto is a writer whose work on the wine worlds of France and Italy I follow with genuine interest.

It was the summer of 2025. As usual, I was following developments in the wine world as closely as possible, selecting the news items that deserved to be shared in the WAYANA Bulletin and grouping together those that required commentary.

The idea that humans should simply subsist on whatever food their environment provided changed roughly eleven thousand years ago.

In the first two chapters of our series, we examined that exhilarating “first moment” when Samuel Pepys discovered “Ho Bryan” in a London tavern, and Robert Boyle’s observations on the chemical evolution of wine in sealed glass vessels.