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The Best Wine Types from Local

Romanian Grapes

Romanian grape varieties © Courtesy of Alina Iancu

GEORGETA GHEORGHE
UPDATED: 5 DECEMBER 2017
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Romania has a winemaking tradition spanning two millennia.

Currently ranked 13th worldwide according to the quantity of
wine it produces, the Eastern European country has a wealth of
local grape varieties that produce some of the best wines
around. With over 100 new wineries having popped up just in the
past five years, the Romanian wine industry is making a
comeback true wine lovers should not miss out on.

Feteasca Regală
A white grape variety, Feteasca Regală is one of the best known Romanian
grape types. Native to the region of Transylvania, where it is still cultivated
on a large area, it was discovered in the 1930s near Sighișoara. A natural
cross between Feteasca Albă and Grasă de Cotnari, it can produce high
quality dry and fresh wines with an excellent ageing potential. A semi-
aromatic variety similar to Chardonnay, when aged in barrels, Feteasca
Regală acquires hints of rose, wild flowers, almond or dried apricots.

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Feteasca Neagră
This ancient grape variety was already cultivated 2,000 years ago by the
Dacians, the ancestors of today’s Romanians and forefathers of the
Romanian wine industry. Traditionally grown on large surfaces in southern
Moldavia and eastern Wallachia, today it is spread throughout the country.
Producing dry red and rosé wines with complex aromas, it develops wild
quince, red berries or ripe plum aromas, and tannins that become velvety
with age.

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Feteasca Albă
A clonal variation of the indigenous variety Feteasca Neagră, this white
grape variety is grown in most regions of the country, and yields medium-
sized grapes with medium-small yellow-green round berries. Producing high
quality balanced wines with a touch of finesse and a great ageing potential,
Feteasca Albă will charm you with its scents and flavours that include citrus
fruit, linden flowers and can evolve towards wild flowers, hay or ripe apricot.

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Crâmpoșie Selecționată
The origins of Crâmpoșie Selecționată can be traced back to more than two
millennia ago, when the Dacians inhabited much of Romania’s territory.
Perfectly adapted to the famous winemaking region of Drăgășani, is was
created by local researchers as an answer to the original Crâmpoșie
variety’s sterility problems. As an auto-sterile variety, meaning that the
grape flowers cannot bear fruit without being pollenated, it was usually
cultivated alongside another Romanian variety, Gordan, which acted as a
pollinator. Via direct sexed hybridisation, researchers obtained the
Crâmpoșie Selecționată variety, which features medium–large sized grapes
with round, medium-sized grapes that catch a slight rusty colour as they
ripen. Due to its high acidity and sugar content, this grape variety produces
high quality sparkling wines with hints of apple, pear, citrus, exotic fruit and
mineral notes.

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Tamâioasa Românească
Grown in Romania for 2,000 years, Tamâioasa Românească likely has its
origins in the Muscat variety probably native of Ancient Greece. The middle-
sized grapes feature dense golden berries with a bold aroma. An excellent
appetiser, Tamâioasa Românească develops an intense floral bouquet with
hints of basil, ripe apricot, pear, melon or pineapple.

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Negru de Drăgășani
A new addition to the list of local Romanian grape varieties, Negru de
Drăgășani produces medium-sized, egg-shaped blue to black berries. This
grape variety was developed in the historic winemaking region of Drăgășani
as a result of the sexual hybridisation of the Romanian variety Negru vârtos
variety with Saperavi, a grape native to Georgia. The wines, with soft
tannins, stand out through their freshness and fruitiness and are well suited
to ageing in oak barrels and bottle. Flavours range from black cherry,
blackberries and spices.

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Băbeasca Neagră
The Băbeasca Neagră variety dates since the 14th-century approximately,
and is known in other parts of the world, where it is known by a local name.
Traditionally grown in the Nicorești winery, its birthplace, over the years it
spread to southern Moldavia, Vrancea, Dealu Mare, Dobrogea and Banat.
With sparse, dark blue and purple berries, this grape variety produces light,
flavoursome wines with high acidity and hints of bitter morello, dried plums,
plus flowery flavours of peony, violet or iris.

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Grasa de Cotnari
Native to the Cotnari vineyard, in Moldavia, Grasa de Cotnari is perhaps one
of the most famous Romanian grape varieties. Producing large grapes with
medium to large conical grapes with thin light green skin, it results in a
range of dry and semi-dry to sweet and noble sweet wines. The wines pack
a strong flavour and develop hints of peach, honey and apple, in the case of
dry types, and raisins, green walnut and almond, in the case of sweet wines.

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Busuioaca de Bohotin
Native to Ancient Greece, Busuioaca de Bohotin was discovered in the
1920s in Bohotin, in the Iași region of Moldavia. It grows middle-sized
grapes with small medium thin-skinned purple grapes. The wines are sweet
and well-balanced with high acidity, similar to Muscat wines, and come in a
very dark purple colour. The flavours range from rose, basil, strawberry and
wild strawberry.

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Galbena de Odobești
Once a widespread grape variety, Galbena de Odobești is exclusively
grown in four winemaking centres in Vrancea. Featuring medium-sized
grapes with dense, golden yellow berries that acquire rusty shades when
ripe, it produces dry, light and fresh wines that are usually put for
consumption after the first year.

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