The makers
The estates and families behind every bottle in the cellar — grouped by wine region, ready to meet.
Wine region
Beside the beauty and the mysticism of these places, which have inspired many stories (Dracula among them), this region has a very rich history. Transylvania is home to many ethnic populations — especially Hungarians and Germans, who substantially influenced the local culture, including the wine making.
A young family of wine entrepreneurs from Jelna, a village in the Northern Transylvanian county of Bistrița-Năsăud — fascinated by winemaking, terroir and the culture around it — dreams to reawaken and protect the sustainable wine heritage that have laid dormant in the region's rolling hills.
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Jidvei Wines is considered to be the second motherland of the Târnave Wine Region. Târnave recognises that in the second half of the thirteenth century there was a mass colonisation by the Saxons from the Mosel-Rhine Valley. The Saxons founded Jidvei — also known in German as Seiden.
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In each bottle of Liliac you will find a dedication to quality, attention to detail, and a spiritual connection to the soil and the Transylvanian climate, decanted by Austrian experience and innovative winemaking techniques.
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In our cellar mature D.O.C. certified organic wines: 80% white and 20% red. Our philosophy is the right balance between tradition and progress. The concrete tanks recovered and renovated along with the technological input are the perfect symbol of integration between old and new.
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Villa Vinea estate sits on a gentle hill at 330–350 m above sea level, with generous southern exposition, right above the Târnava Mică river. The Târnave region is one of the best for white grapes in Romania, but recent reds — Pinot Noir, Fetească Neagră — show real promise.
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Many great Romanian wines are produced here. It is the birthplace of many indigenous rare grapes — Fetească Neagră (top red grape), Busuioacă de Bohotin (the only grape that produces pure rosé wines), and whites both fresh and fruity like Frâncușă, Șarbă, Plăvaie and Grasă de Cotnari.
The fruit of over 650 hectares of vineyards spreading over Averești is transformed with passion and skill into fresh, bright and aromatic wines. Year-on-year we walk the same path — taking care of the vineyards and turning the fruit into wines that enchant all senses.
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Cotnari Wine House has its roots in ancient Romanian times, when the native varieties made rumours among the rulers and competed on the boyars' tables. The emblem captures Vlădoianu Castle, built in 1901 by a former BNR governor and distinguished winegrower.
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The Gîrboiu family has always guaranteed the style and quality of the wines by being personally and directly involved in every stage of the production process. An indisputable support has always been the well-trained team behind the brand.
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Hermeziu stands for destiny, valour and vigour. It is the story of the Negruzzi Dynasty domain — the vibration of the wine of 200 years ago, passed today as legend with preface. White, red or rosé, the wines contain sparkles of story, mystery and literature.
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Since 2009, Domeniile Panciu are the heart and soul of the wines from over 120 hectares of vines located in this area of Vrancea. The mission has always been to make a natural, quality, 100% Romanian product by continuously exploiting the potential of the Panciu vineyard.
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Vineyards on the Moldovan hills with a strong sense of place — concentrating on native varieties and the freshness only the eastern hills can deliver.
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Located in the north-west part of Romania, the wine making here was influenced by the West European style. Austro-Hungarian emperors preferred wines from Crișana and Maramureș.
At the third generation of vine-growers, our family manages over 40 hectares of vineyards. Vines grown with great passion, carefully selected grapes and cutting-edge technologies ensure that our wines are of the highest quality and portray the typicity of Crișana's limestone, clay and loess-dominated terroir.
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Carastelec Sparkling Winery is the first investment in Romania aimed at producing mostly sparkling and semi-sparkling wines. This "natural amphitheatre" near the village, on the top of a slope, is a real treasure hill — its specific microclimate chosen by Tibor Gál, one of Hungary's leading oenologists, years ago.
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Our wines have a specific personality — the reds are intensely coloured, pleasantly velvety, fine and fruity, marked by the terroir of Miniș. We use classic winemaking technologies with the concept of minimal intervention, without selected yeasts, at controlled temperature, followed by maturation in large and small barrels.
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Despite being the smallest, due to the good quality of the terroirs and the proper climate, the region has known one of the best developments of wine industry — mostly because of foreign investments targeting high-quality wine making. The climate is influenced by the Danube River and the proximity of the Mediterranean area.
The Petro Vaselo goal is to obtain unique and recognizable quality wines — and everything starts by knowing the grape variety and the conditions under which they have arrived at maturity.
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The main ingredients of winemaking at Cramele Recaș include passion, the pursuit of optimal quality standards and continuous performance. Hartley and Nora, our winemakers, have dedicated more than 14 years to the creation of the most famous wines in our portfolio.
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Romania's southern wine country, stretching from Dealu Mare under the curve of the Carpathians, west through the Olt valley to Drăgășani and Sâmburești, then on to the Mehedinți hills. Sun-warm slopes, limestone soils, and Romania's deepest concentration of native red varieties — Fetească Neagră, Negru de Drăgășani, Novac, Crâmpoșie Selecționată.
A deliberately low-volume Dealu Mare producer in Urlați, working from the Casa Colinelor vineyards. In their own words — "some faces, for some anonymous, for those who know us probably some reckless people, who don't want to produce millions of bottles but happiness."
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Founded in 2010 to revive the historic Ștefănești wine region. Twenty-five hectares on the Marcea plateau in Argeș, with a modern winery in the middle of the vineyard running on photovoltaic and geothermal energy.
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70 hectares around the two hills Tegăneanu and Zorilor in Dealu Mare — the brand continues the Prince Matei line first bottled in 1998, now under the Vintruvian Estates group. Old vines, over 40 years on this terroir.
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The foundations of Romania's first organic vineyard, planted by Burgundian winemaker Denis Thomas in Săhăteni, Dealu Mare. Since 2020 led by Romanian owners Mihnea Mihalache and Mihnea Olariu — the organic farming begun in 2003 continues.
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Founded in 2007 by Bordeaux-trained engineer Laurent Pfeffer with French co-owners on the former Bibescu estate at Corcova — the same vineyards Prince Antoine Bibesco and Marcel Proust spoke of in the Belle Époque. Certified organic from the 2024 vintage.
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Founded in 2003 by oenologist Aurelia Vișinescu on 82 hectares at Săhăteni, Dealu Mare — clay and chalk soils, south-facing slopes. The Artisan line is dedicated to indigenous Romanian varieties from this area.
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A large Dealu Mare estate working 275 hectares at Gura Vadului, founded in 2006. Hand-picked grapes across seventeen wine collections, including the Noble 5 blend.
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A tradition begun in 1910 by Prince Antoine Bibescu and Lady Asquith, whose cement-tank cellar is still in use. The Corcova Roy & Dâmboviceanu venture began in 2005 with the replanting of 70 hectares of the former Bibescu vineyards in Mehedinți.
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Founded in 2012 by German oenologist Oliver Bauer and Romanian partner Raluca at Drăgășani. About 25,000 bottles a year from rare native varieties — Crâmpoșie Selecționată, Negru de Drăgășani — on old parcels of the Dealurile Olteniei IGP.
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The Oprișor cellar began in 1997 when Reh Kendermann replanted around 250 hectares on the Drincea Valley hills in Mehedinți. First VAL DUNA and LA CETATE wines appeared in 2001; the cellar took the Oprișor name in 2008 to emphasise its Oltenian roots.
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Founded in 1991 (first commercial vintages in 2000), Davino farms around 89 hectares in Ceptura. Manual ploughing, strict yield management, hand thinning, and a minimum of 30 months in Romanian oak for the top reds.
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One of the oldest continuously-working estates in Dealu Mare. In their words — "Since 1773, Tohani has drawn skilled people who loved the vine, worked it, and understood it." A private wine library of over 100,000 collection bottles.
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One of the twelve domains given to the Romanian Royal House in 1884 under King Carol I. 277 hectares of vineyards facing south in a natural amphitheatre in Dolj — the same 44th parallel as Bordeaux. Famous for a rare, century-old Tămâioasă Roză parcel.
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Founded in 2011 by Austrian co-owner Walter Friedl and Romanian partner Mihai Băniță on an 82-hectare estate at Finţeşti, southern Dealu Mare. Named for the lizards that live in the warm vineyard soils. The winery itself is a heavily-restored 1901 building.
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A boutique Dealu Mare estate in Gura Vadului. The current Winehouse opened in 2013, but the family connection goes back a century — to a cellar built by Nicolae and Elena Nicolau, guided to plant here by a dream involving Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu asking for a dark wine.
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In 1990, the Negrini family took over the former property of General Teodorini in the Drăgășani vineyards — 10 hectares including a small estate and cellar. The ballerina on every label recalls a love story between a previous owner and an Italian dancer.
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Founded in 1994 by Count Guy de Poix as "the very first private company in the Romanian wine sector." Set at 450 m altitude on the 45th parallel in Ceptura, with an early and continuous focus on Fetească Neagră — "the point from which everything began at SERVE."
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The Drăgășani estate built up by Prince Barbu Alexandru Știrbey in the early 1920s, nationalised in 1949, and returned to the family in 2001. Now run by Ileana Kripp (born Stirbey) and Jakob Kripp with oenologist Oliver Bauer — close to the indigenous Drăgășani varieties.
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A joint project between the Antinori family and oenologist Fiorenzo Rista, founded in 2008. About 100 hectares of vineyard in Urlați and Breaza, with a new winery in Ungureni inaugurated in 2014 by members of the Antinori family. Moving steadily toward ecological viticulture.
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Founded in the late 1990s by Romanian, French and Italian investors. Works two of the most important sites in southern Romania: 160 hectares at Stârmina, Mehedinți, near the Danube, and 50 hectares at Sâmburești, Olt. Vinified at Crama Bolovanu and Crama Stârmina.
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The Dobrogea Hills wine region is located in the south-east of Romania, surrounded mainly by waters: the Danube River in the west and north and its Delta, and the Black Sea in the east. It is the region where the oldest land in Romania — the ancient Măcin Mountains — meets the newest, the still-growing Danube Delta.
We embarked on our journey in 2011, when we planted our vineyards stretching over 154 hectares in Dobrogea, the land between the Danube and the Black Sea, in the renowned Murfatlar D.O.C. wine region near the village of Peștera — an area with a tradition of grape cultivation since antiquity.
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Nature in the Danube Delta has a magical quality of its own. It is a region where the bond between man, the vineyard and the countryside has achieved a balance unique in the world. This is why we have invested here and why we want to contribute to producing great wines.
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The sun is the symbol of Rasova — our logo — because it is an essential factor in the growth of our vineyard, alongside our sandy soils and the breeze that comes from the Danube. Together they create a unique environment enjoyed by our vines.
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Established in 1991 in the oldest vineyard of Dobruja, near the hills of Sarica and Niculițel, where grapevine cultivation has been a common practice for millennia. The estate sits between the Sarica–Niculițel hills and the cool influence of the Danube.
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