Re-united with my university colleagues and their wives, friends at Big-Chef Beyoğlu last week. Back in the university we formed a group of 4 people , Fırat, Emrah, Ibrahim and me. We have been meeting since than except Ibrahim. Ibrahim we will keep calling you and i hope we will achieve having you with us one day :)
Well before leaving the office for heading the restaurant i had a look at the list of the wines and found the MONTES Cabernet de Sauvignon Colchauga Valley to be worth trying for. Looking at the menu in the restaurant i was not surprised seeing the price of it being more reasonable than the others. Chili wines tend to be cheaper in Türkiye. Well maybe because there is some kind of import agreement with Chili which effects its market price?
I would not recommend you the place. The service was not good, the dishes were ok so so.... Not quite what you would expect from that kind of restaurant. Because of these bad impressions about the food and place our wine experience was also
distracted.
The ambience lighting was dark for me to judge the color of the wine; it was like dark pink. The smell of the wine was fruitful, with a very stable and bitter taste on the rear ends and right tip of my tongue. I ordered Kuzu Dibi which was served on a pizza plate! with "Beğendi" puree of barbecued eggplant and with vegetables as garnish. I found the dish cold, Fırat also found his pasta served cold. Tendu my wife and others who ordered fajita were naturally happy with theirs.
We went for another bottle of wine afterwards. Than we were talking about having second children which was opposed by us and defended by others. In the mean time I was drinking the wine alone without any food, my tongue was so bruised that on the background I started to think what kind of similarities did Bogazkere had with Cabernet Sauvignon. Though I dont suggest this wine drinking alone.
