Problem
Where can I try Romanian wines?
Answers
1 Starting in Bucharest, at any restaurant. The waiter or wine waiter will be delighted to help you.
2 Drive north of Bucharest for an hour or two and you will come to a wine route signposted on the roads around Dealu Mare. (Vineyard described in next post.)
Stories
1 Our first Romanian drink was when we arrived in the capital, Bucharest, on Thursday night in June 2017 and checked into our hotel, the Scala Boutique Hotel. Our welcome drink was highly alcoholic, a spirit. The hotel's restaurant was closed because of lack of staff. I knew that if I drank spirits I would not be able to walk to the nearby old town for dinner.
My free drink was dark red. Strong stuff. So I added water.
Why not? You add water to whisky because it is too strong to drink neat, or even on the rocks, on melting ice.
3 La Vinuri
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
Where can I try Romanian wines?
Answers
1 Starting in Bucharest, at any restaurant. The waiter or wine waiter will be delighted to help you.
2 Drive north of Bucharest for an hour or two and you will come to a wine route signposted on the roads around Dealu Mare. (Vineyard described in next post.)
Stories
1 Our first Romanian drink was when we arrived in the capital, Bucharest, on Thursday night in June 2017 and checked into our hotel, the Scala Boutique Hotel. Our welcome drink was highly alcoholic, a spirit. The hotel's restaurant was closed because of lack of staff. I knew that if I drank spirits I would not be able to walk to the nearby old town for dinner.
My free drink was dark red. Strong stuff. So I added water.
Why not? You add water to whisky because it is too strong to drink neat, or even on the rocks, on melting ice.
Welcome drink at the Scala Boutique Hotel. Photo by Angela Lansbury.
2 Bucharest Old Town - Crama Damneasca Restaurant
C r a m a means winery. The restaurant name contained the word Crama, winery. The same word, Crama, was on the label of the bottle of wine we ordered.
Look at the label below. We sat over our dinner deciphering it. Add the letter u to the end of the word and it is like of. So Basilescu would be of Basil? More likely the winery of the basilisc or dome.
The grape is Feteasca alba. Alba means white. 2015 was the year it was bottled. So it is a two year old wine in 2017, a young wine, likely to be sharp as well as dry.
Vin is wine, like the French word vin, as in the French vin de table, table wine, or vin o r d i n a i r e meaning ordinary wine.
Alba means white. So it is a white grape.
Sec is dry. Cu like a short form of the Latin word cum means with.
DOC for Denumire de Origine Controlata, translates the English Denomination (name) of origin controlled. That is like a trademark on the name.
3 La Vinuri
Opposite the opera house was newly opened tapas and Wine tasting Bar, La Vinuri. Not cheap, though it might be good value.
4 Artisan wine, on the menus of restaurants, is from a winery we visited the next day.
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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