Sirince is a hillside village of whitewashed, red-roofed houses about eight kilometres above Selcuk, wrapped in vineyards, orchards and olive groves. It was a prosperous Greek settlement until the 1923 population exchange, and that Ottoman-Greek heritage survives in its stone lanes, its two nineteenth-century churches and the architecture of its old houses, some now converted into charming boutique guesthouses. Today the village makes its living from visitors and from what it grows: it is famous across Turkey for its homemade fruit wines, pressed from strawberries, peaches, pomegranates, mulberries and more, poured for tasting in shops all along the main street, alongside local olive oil, dried fruit, herbs, soaps and lace. It has become popular and can feel crowded and commercial at midday, but wander even one street back from the tasting shops and you find quiet corners, village gardens and sweeping views over the surrounding hills. It pairs perfectly with a morning at Ephesus, just down the valley.
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