The Vineyards Wine Tasting

Cappadocia, located in almost the geographic center of Turkey, is often called the jewel of Central Anatolia.  Its otherworldly landscape is hard to describe.  Perhaps moonscape says it best.  From its conical rock outcrops to its churches, chapels, and homes carved into lava rocks to its underground cities, Cappadocia is like few other places on earth. Its underground cities, some eight floors deep, were built to protect the early Christian inhabitants from invaders.  Present-day Cappadocia is known for its apricots, cherries, and sugar beets, as well as its carpet weaving and decorative pottery tradition.  And, more recently, wine-making.

This one-day Cappadocia tour combines a bit of sightseeing with a visit to the oldest wineries in Cappadocia.

Your sightseeing will include a walk through one of the valleys famous for its rock formations of fairy chimneys and mushroom pinnacles and a visit to Kaymakli, an underground city.  You will also visit Sinasos, a preserved Greek village now known as Mustafapasa, with its exquisite stone masonry on the facades, balconies, and windows of its 19th-century houses.  The Greek inhabitants of Sinasos left during the exchange of populations between Greece and turkey in 1923.

You will visit two wineries, one founded in 1943 and now run by the third generation of the founding family.  In 2001 it began to grow grape varieties unique to Turkey.  The other winery has a rock-carved wine cellar, which you will be able to walk through.  You will learn about the growing process, the winemaking process and the history of wine itself.  And, of course, there will be ample wine tastings.

The Vineyards Wine Tasting