Cramele Recas, Romania’s largest winery, has reached a major landmark in its march towards organic winemaking, with its first certificated organic wines now reaching the UK. The first fully certified ...

Romania has made wine for over 6,000 years and still cultivates lots of indigenous grapes (e.g. fetească neagră, fetească regală) as well as imported noble ones Once part of the Roman Empire, then the ...

The Romanian wine industry is enjoying a comeback after years of battling to throw off the reputation it gained during the country’s Communist rule. The Communists prioritised quantity over quality, ...

I have to say I absolutely loved this slightly bonkers wine. Made in north-western Romania by the progressive Carmele Recas, which has an English owner and Australian winemaker, it is an unlikely ...

I first visited Cramele Recas in Romania in 2015 and was impressed then that the winery was able to produce 10 million bottles of well-made wines at very keen prices. In the last six years the company ...

Back in 1990 when I first began seeking out varietal wines (as opposed to branded table wines) the best value (drinkable) Cabernet Sauvignon was from Bulgaria and the best value Pinot Noir was ...