Grapes: Öküzgözü, Boğazkere
Region: Elazig
Color: Garnet with bright ruby tints
Fragrance: Complex with dried red fruits, spice aromas, tobacco and leathery notes
Taste: Full-bodied with persistent flavors, integrated oak notes and strong ripe tannins, lively
barrel Matured for 10 months in 225 lt French oak barrels.
Temperature: 17-18 °C
Food Matches: Matches perfectly with spicy sauced red meat dishes, T-bone steak, spaghetti Carbonara and hard yellow cheeses.
Selection Öküzgözü-Boğazkere is first produced in honor of the 60th anniversary of Kavaklıdere Wines in 1987. It combines the richness and the elegance of Öküzgözü with the full-body of Boğazkere. Since then Selection brand has been considered as the rising value of Anatolian wine production.
An attentive vinification method is applied to Öküzgözü and Boğazkere grapes selected carefully from the best vineyards of Elazığ and Diyarbakır, to reveal the characters of the grapes. Selection Öküzgözü-Boğazkere 2018, matured in French oak barrels for 10 months, is a full bodied and complex red wine with strong and ripe tannins and a good potential to age further.
It is best served at 17-18° C and matches perfectly with spicy sauced red meat dishes, T-bone steak, spaghetti Carbonara and hard yellow cheeses.