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One of the most important motivations for us for founding WAYANA, perhaps the first one, must be our belief in the richness that our country will provide with wines made from an extraordinary variety of endemic grapes.

When we looked at the sources about the grape that gave life to Osmanca wine, which recently entered the WAYANA Wine Menu, we were honestly confused. We have already learned that the grape of this elegant wine is Gökçealan Village in İzmir's Selçuk district. Gökçealan makes a name for itself as a modern residential area that leaves very good impressions on those who visit the town.

In one of our bulletins in December, we announced a new decision that would deal a heavy blow to wine production in Turkey. It is an unreasonable practice to demand guarantees against the possibility of not being able to collect unpaid taxes, which will put even more difficulty on the already fragile financial structures of small producers. We hope that the efforts made to prevent this practice from being implemented will not go unrewarded. We already know how Turkey's view of wine has changed in the last twenty years, especially with Special Consumer Tax and Tax Label practices. So, is this just our country? The answer to that question is no, and we are at a point where we need to be concerned about where this change might be heading not only in Turkey but also in the world.

You may come across snobby wine enthusiasts in wine-bars and restaurants that serve wine, including WAYANA. These types immediately catch your eye as they interrupt the sommelier and try to show that he also knows wine. Here are the salient features of the wine snobs who stand out with their behavior.

We observe that the interest in old vines within the wine world is increasing day by day. We also announced the Old Vine Registry initiative, which is one of the concrete examples of interest in this issue, in the WAYANA Weekly a while ago.