{"id":991736,"date":"2025-06-14T14:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wayanatapas.com\/?p=991736"},"modified":"2025-06-14T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:22:52","slug":"noirs-de-blanc-inovatif-bir-sarap-uygulamasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayanatapas.com\/en\/noirs-de-blanc-inovatif-bir-sarap-uygulamasi\/","title":{"rendered":"NOIRS DE BLANC: AN INNOVATIVE WINE EXPERIMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You might think that wine producers struggle immensely to sell their products, right? Think again. As a place that serves wines from nearly all Turkish producers, WAYANA can tell you otherwise. Let me summarize briefly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2014, only one producer has ever come knocking on our door to promote their wines. And that producer was the largest in Turkey, while we were just starting out. \u015eamil Gence, then at Kavakl\u0131dere Wines, noticed the potential in us and spent four hours tasting with us. \u015eamil has a greater claim on today\u2019s WAYANA than he probably realizes. Kavakl\u0131dere\u2019s ability to maintain its position comes down to such key decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At WAYANA (or BEPPE, our original pizza restaurant\u2019s name), we have never hesitated to chase after wine producers. Yet, we remain puzzled by how weak their active marketing efforts are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOW WE MET AKBERG WINES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizing professional wine events in Turkey \u2014 the world\u2019s 17th largest economy \u2014 is almost impossible. At one of the few recent events, I saw Akberg Wines present for the first time. The title caught my attention: Noirs de Blanc. At first glance, it seemed like a spelling error; then I thought, \u201cIf this big mistake exists\u2026,\u201d only to realize it was deliberate. Attending and completing the tasting, I was glad to see Akberg delivering on their promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presentation told the story of their journey trying to make red wine from grapes typically used for white wine, and we had the chance to taste three resulting wines. I took their card and left mine, though no one called me. Eventually, we managed to contact their marketing managers, and since then our relationship has grown strong \u2014 yet the rule remains, we\u2019re the ones reaching out to producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT IS NOIRS DE BLANC?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no such wine style in the literature. Several producers have excitedly experimented with this concept at different times. One is Akberg, based in Izmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In white wine production, contact with grape skins is kept to a minimum. The skins play no role in fermentation (except for Orange and natural wines, which are outside our scope here), so white wine can never naturally take on a red color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to make red wine from white wine grapes, there\u2019s only one path: adding color by using the dark skins of other grapes. In technical terms, this means applying a maceration process \u2014 almost never used in white wine \u2014 by incorporating the skins of different grapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT DID AKBERG DO?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akberg, known especially for their B\u00fcy\u00fckba\u011f series featured on the WAYANA menu, chose three white and three red wine grape varieties and paired them as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n