Ep 121: Wines of Romania with Philip Cox, Owner of Cramele Recas (Part 1)

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Today’s episode is all about Romanian wine. And who better to talk about this than the owner of the largest Romanian Winery, Cramele Recas, responsible for more than 50% of all of Romania's wines that are exported. So, English born Philip Cox, is going to be taking us through the wine regions of this much lesser-known eastern European country. He'll be taking us on his own journey of how he ended up in Romania, the challenges he's had to take on, how to deal with adversity, how to think outside of the box, how to market to the right customer. We will, of course, be tasting and talking about one of the most famous indigenous grape varieties of Romania, Fetească regală, which means royal madam. We will discuss tourism in this beautiful country, wine making choices.

If you want to skip ahead:

2.36: How English born Philip ended up owning and running a Romanian winery

13.45: The size of Cramele Recas in terms of production and export

15.44: All the main wine regions of Romania and the grapes that grow there

19.27: Discussing the white grape variety Fetească regală

23.24: Tasting Fetele Fetească regală 2021 £10.45 Corney & Barrow

31.19: Tasting Pasari, Chardonnay - Fetească regală 2021 £9.95 Corney & Barrow

34.03: Storing all wines at 5 degrees Celsius and its effect on wines

36.22: The 2021 vintage in Romania

37.16: Describing the vineyards in Recas

41.10: Visiting the winery – and advice on a trip to Timișoara aka ‘Little Vienna

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