I know it's a month past Halloween. But this Transylvanian wine could be just the thing for future Halloween festivities except for one little fact; this wine is in no way scary, despite it's origin.
Whilst I was away in England, Vinomaker did quite a bit of wine-shopping. The Recas, 2013, Fetească Regală (Transylvania, Romania) was just one of the interesting wines he purchased. Not one to pass up an opportunity to test my taste buds, Vinomaker poured a glass of this wine for me and waited for me to play our Four Vees (varietal, valley, vintage and value) game. Well, I failed miserably. I was able to guess the vintage, but I had not one, single clue as to the wines origin, grape variety or price ($6.49 as it happens). Opting for a domestic Viognier, for about $18, imagine how surprised I was to find out that I was drinking a Romanian wine. And a wine made from a grape variety that I have never heard of.
Bright, peachy and delicately floral, this wine was really, really lovely. Amazingly, I have since read that Romania is one of the world's largest wine producers. Who would've thunk it? Not me. Fetească Regală is a nice little (fright) surprise.
5 comments:
Sounds nice. Wish I could find it here.
Romania and Hungary were the last Roman outposts to benefit from Roman grape growing and winemaking. Unfortunately for Romania, it always had to take a back seat to Hungary's fame.
Vinogirl: The Carpathian mountains and the Black sea slopes are supposed to be great for growing both red and white wines, but I have yet to see any of them in NH; I'll be sure to grab any I can find.
Thomas: excellent historical notes. I believe that Romanians speak a Romance languages well.
Dennis:
Did you know that the Emperor Probus was killed by his legions in the vineyards of Syrmia--Hungary?
Thomas: Now I do!
VG: Raining ... and dogs?
Tomasso: Love those Romans.
NHW: Haven't had a red (that I can remember), but this white was fun.
Yes, rain :(
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