The Journal

Field notes from the peninsula

Slow stories about the seasons, the grapes, the growers and the makers — the why behind everything in the collection.

The year of the early harvest

A dry spring brought the olives in three weeks early. We spent October with the growers who chose to pick anyway. This entry is seeded from the original design narrative and is ready to be expanded in the admin panel.

Wine

Six grapes that only grow here

Urla Karası, Bornova Misketi, Foça Karası — a short guide to the Aegean’s quiet natives.

Makers

A morning with the ceramicist

How a maker on Urla’s Sanat Sokağı pulls the colour of the hills into a glaze, one firing at a time.