Terra Madre Anadolu opened its doors in Izmir for the first time in Turkey, and ideas were shared about agriculture, grape production and winemaking in the session "Eat the Grape and Ask for Your Vineyard" as part of the "İzmir Art Garden" conversations. Emphasizing the quality of viticulture tourism, the speakers stated that 120 thousand visitors for wine spent more than 2 million tourists in Antalya. It was also stated that if 10/1 of the raisin production is used only in wine and its marketing is done, the income will increase.
Terra Madre Anadolu, which was organized for the first time in Turkey simultaneously with the Izmir International Fair (IEF), organized for the 91st time this year by Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, continues with its “Izmir Art Garden” talks. Within the scope of the international gastronomy fair Terra Madre Anadolu İzmir, organized under the leadership of Slow Food (Slow Food), agriculture, grape production and winemaking sectors were discussed in the talk "Eat Grape and Ask for Your Vineyard", moderated by Agriculture and Food Writer Bilge Keykubat. Gastronomy Expert-Author Levon Bağış, Mey Diaego General Manager Levent Kömür, Urla Vineyard Road and Urla Winery Chairman of the Board Can Ortabaş and Slow Wine Coalition Coordinator Maddalena Schiavone took part as speakers.
In line with his vision of "Another Agriculture is Possible", İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor, who pioneered the roadmap for achieving healthy, good, fair and clean food. Tunç Soyer He also participated in the interview as a listener. President Soyer's wife, İzmir Village Coop President Neptün Soyer, İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Agricultural Services Department Head Şevket Meriç and citizens took part in the conversation.
“If we use 10/1 of the raisin production for wine, we will generate more income”
Gastronomy Expert-Author Levon Bagis, who touched upon the grape growing in Turkey and drew attention to the potential by giving examples from the wine production of 100 years ago, said, “The amount of wine sold abroad only from Izmir Port in the early 1900s was 360 million liters. This is 6 times the total wine produced in Turkey today. We are only talking about Izmir Port. We are either the first or the second in the world in raisin sales. If we use 10/1 of it only in wine, we will generate more income. Because remember, 1 bottle of wine is produced from 1 liter of grape juice. We're talking about 4 times less than raisins. This is something very precious. We are sitting on a great legacy. "Either we will be wasteful, wasting this legacy, or we will be good parents who pass it on to our grandchildren," he said.
“120 thousand people who come for wine spend more than 2 million tourists in Antalya”
Mentioning the process of starting production, Urla Vineyard Road and Urla Winery Chairman of the Board of Directors Can Ortabaş opened a separate parenthesis on the quality of viticulture tourism. Ortabaş said, “The tourist who comes for wine spends 5 and a half times that of a museum tourist, 20-21 times the tourist who comes to Antalya for everything inclusive. 120 thousand visitors for wine spend more than 2 million Antalya tourists. The tourist went to Antalya, did not know Kaleici, did not go out. Where is the added value of this other than employing people there? What has Kusadasi become, it has become concrete, will everywhere be concrete like Istanbul? It is possible to protect them and create added value.”
“Grape inn, we are passengers”
Mey Diaego General Manager Levent Kömür said, “The main thing is the sustainability of grapes in these lands. Grape innkeeper, we are passengers. If we ask which countries to include in the triangle of agriculture, tourism and export, one of the first countries that comes to mind will definitely be Turkey. "The oil of tourism is wine in Turkey," he said.
“We are working to get the laws, government and state support”
Maddalena Schiavone, Coordinator of the Slow Wine Coalition, presented examples of the work carried out under the umbrella of the institution. Stating that they have been walking together with Slow Food volunteers and the stakeholders of the winemaking industry in Italy for 3 years, Schiavone said, “We discussed what we can do to solve the problems and difficulties with a common mind. We continue our work in order to bring the emerging ideas to the political plane. We are trying to determine the place of grapes and wine in the world with the support of laws, government and state policies.”
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