Wojciech Bońkowski
Master of Wine

Turkish wine: the boutique wineries

Boutique wineries in Turkey: the best addresses and top bottles.

The wines of Le Macchiole

Made to impress, they do. But I prefer the Cabernet Franc to the Merlot.

Petro Vaselo: promising Romania

New kid on the block: brilliant Merlot and Pinot Noir offers glimpse of hope for Romania.

Livio Felluga Sossò 2000

Orange wine works great with goose; world-class Merlot from Italy.

Time to go, Mr. Merlot

Day 1 of the Pannon Wine Challenge in Hungary. No winners yet but I already know the losers.

Wine from nowhere

Perhaps my most exotic tasting ever: 3 bottles from Albania. And actually a good surprise: drinkable and interesting stuff.

Prince Ştirbey: Romania’s finest

Europe’s fifth largest producer of wine has a long way to go. But one producer is showing what can be done when you try hard.

Sutor: a Slovenian star

The most drinkable wines of 2011 so far: a Sauvignon and a Merlot from Slovenia. Why? They’re so moderate. The perfect antidote to jammy Shiraz or Parkerized supertuscans.

Exciting Croatia (3): Baranja

Third stop of my visit to Croatia: Baranja on the Danube.

The wines of Csaba Malatinszky

The famous Csaba Malatinszky sends me 6 bottles to try…