Öküzgözü and Boğazkere Grapes

Around 60 different grape types are grown in Elazığ. This fruit is the city’s most important agricultural product. Two of these grapes, Öküzgözü and Boğazkere grapes, are geographic indication products of Elazığ. Öküzgözü, a dark colored and fleshy grape with large round grains, and Boğazkere grapes, which are also dark colored and aromatic, give very successful results as wine grapes. Although wine is produced by a few facilities in the region, these boutique wines are of high quality enough to receive many awards!

Exported to many parts of the country and consumed as fruit, these grapes are also used in making Cevizli Sucuk Cevizli Sucuk and Pestil, which are among the important flavors of Elazığ.