The van was ready to take us back to Sirince, but we decided
we wanted to wander around town just because, and maybe have
drinks and dinner. The Pink Bistro is right near the travel
agency that seems to be the headquarters for all tours, and
it has a big beer for E5, so we plopped ourselves down for
a couple cold ones. Then a random walk that eventually took
us to the TAT restaurant, where pretty good musaka and
lahmejun filled us up for not very much money. The rather
oily proprietor was just a bit too friendly, but once we
ignored him everything was fine.

We picked up a van at the travel agency and were shortly in
Sirince, the guardrail-less curves even more impressive in
the dark. Once there we decided to explore town a bit and
found the wine-merchant district; parked ourselves at a bar
lined with local carpetry to taste various Akberg products:

Bogazkere - your standard overripe wine but not bad for
that. Flavor of prunes and grape stem, medium dry, okay.

Okuzgozu - this variety, with the previous, are the mainstay
of the Anatolian wine industry. I don't know if there is any
relation, but it tasted kind of like Merlot to me, which is
funny, as the Merlot didn't.

Cabernet - surprisingly, it was as horrid as what we had
been served at Dimitro's the previous night - the aroma
slightly cheesy, no discernible fruit, a strange mouth-
coating blandness such as one gets in homemade wine that
has been infected with a trash yeast strain or something.

Merlot - a little better, with cherry and herbal flavors and
actually tasting almost right, but if you should encounter
them on their native soil, do go with the native varietals.

After a few glasses it was clear that it was time for all to
go home - staff, customers, bystanders - and so we did,
quite happier for the experience. We poked around a little
on the way back and found that there was plenty to explore
just in this quaint little town. Next time.