As WAYANA, we have been expanding our menu with new wines every month since we started out. On the basis of our growth need, we aim to embrace all Turkish producers and include their wines in our menu. That's why every time you come to us, our wine menu welcomes you with a range of new products.

Of course, we included new wines in our menu at the beginning of November. We brought together two friendly producers (Eceabat Etruscan and Kayseri Vinolus) that we did not serve before but we know. (You can examine the WAYANA Wine Menu in detail in a separate article.)

But we are very happy to make another change in our menu for November: a rubai of Omar Khayyam welcomes you on our opening page:

Since neither truth nor certitude is at hand;

Do not waste your life in doubt for a fairyland?

O let us not refuse the goblet of wine,

For sober or drunken, in ignorance we stand.

Although we know this extraordinary scientist, who was born in Nishapur almost a thousand years ago (in 1048), by his rubai, Khayyam was an astronomer who calculated the nearly perfect length of a solar year, a mathematician with groundbreaking work on cubic equations and the parallel axiom. Another chapter in Omar Hayyam's life where reality and rumor mixed together is his relations with the Seljuk Vizier Nizam-ül Mulk and the founder of the Hashashi order, Hasan bin Sabbah.

Khayyam, almost forgotten until the middle of the XIX. century, wakes up from a deep sleep when the English poet FitzGerald publishes his poems in English, his popularity increases, Khayyam Clubs are established in his name, and he enthrones millions of people with his rubai.

Let's remember Hayyam with another rubai translated into Turkish by Sabahattin Eyüboğlu.

Who said that Khayyam does not know what is haram?

I do not confuse haram with halal;

The wine drunk with you is halal.

Even the water we drink without you is haram.

We raise our glasses for Khayyam.