Founded in 2011 by Austrian co-owner Walter Friedl and his Romanian partner Mihai Băniță, on an 82-hectare estate in southern Dealu Mare. The name comes from the Latin for lizard, for the reptiles that live in the warm vineyard soils.
In their own words, the site sits south of the Romanian Carpathians, on the same 45th parallel as Piemonte or Bordeaux, with wet springs and long, dry, sunny autumns. The winery itself is a heavily-restored 1901 building.
