Fetească neagră – the most popular Romanian grape

Fetească neagră or Black Maiden and Black Fairy is the jewel of Romanian indigenous grape varieties who has a millennial history related with dacians history. Seeds of Fetească neagră were discovered in ancient vestiges discovered in Romania, more than 2000 years old.

Fetească neagră is similar, for the Romanians, to a sophisticated fairy, hard to tame, seductive and mysterious, imposing through presence, complexity and acidity, all very well balanced like an irresistible woman. The grape is very versatile, they can gets from 200 to 240 grams of sugar per liter, if is late harvested can gets 270 grams. The acidity can be more than 7 g/ l in tartaric acid for crops up to 7-8 tonnes/ ha.

It is possible to obtain special rose and red wines. The maximum potential after the maturation in oak barrels followed by the aging in the bottle, resulting high quality wines with a strong typicality.

Depending of the wine-making techniques the the wines get various flavors and fine tannins, good acidity, medium to full body and often more than 13,5% alcohol. It is typical to have aromas of dried plums, blackberries, and black blueberries along with nice black pepper, vanilla and coffee flavors, and for the old wines toast and skin senses.

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