Press & Media

About Ruby Imports

Ruby Imports is America's specialist Turkish wine importer, founded in 2023 by Lisa and Alexis. We work directly with three family-owned wineries across Turkey (Erdel Winery in Çal, HUS Winery in Urla and Cappadocia, and Mozaik Winery in Urla) to bring award-winning wines made from indigenous grape varieties to the United States market.

Our mission is to introduce American wine lovers to the extraordinary, undiscovered wines of Turkey, a country with over 7,000 years of winemaking history, the world's 5th largest vineyard area, and more than 600 indigenous grape varieties found nowhere else on Earth.

Key Facts

Story Angles

We welcome press inquiries. Here are some story angles we can support:

• The Turkish Wine Renaissance: How a new generation of winemakers is rediscovering 7,000 years of viticultural heritage and putting Turkish wine on the international map.
• Indigenous Grapes You've Never Heard Of: Meet Öküzgözü, Boğazkere, Narince, and Emir, ancient Turkish varieties producing world-class wines.
• Women in Wine Importing: Lisa and Alexis's journey from wine enthusiasts to building America's specialist Turkish wine import business.
• Turkish Wine & Food: Why Turkish wines are the perfect pairing for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines, and beyond.
• The Value Proposition: How Turkish wines at $15-30 deliver the quality of $40-60 European bottles, and why that won't last forever.
• Producer Stories: The deeply personal stories behind our three partner wineries, from a Silk Road village to a cross-continental love story to organic Aegean winemaking.

Press Inquiries

For press inquiries, interview requests, high-resolution images, or sample requests, please contact us at hello@rubyimportswine.com.

We are happy to provide product samples, tasting notes, tech sheets, producer bios, and high-resolution bottle photography for editorial use.