The flavor of raisin in wine of Vrancea
Discover the of Vrancea wines revealing the of raisin flavor during the olphactive analysis (nose) and during the gustative analysis (mouth).
The wine region of Vrancea of Romania. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Bacanta or the Domaine Sigillum Moldaviae produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Vrancea are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Feteasca neagra and Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Vrancea often reveals types of flavors of oaky, smoke or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, citrus fruit or floral.
We currently count 24 estates and châteaux in the of Vrancea, producing 97 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Vrancea go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or lamb.
Both Mouton and Margaux 2021 were released en primeur at €420 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, down 2.8% on the 2020-vintage debut last year, according to Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the trade. While the market dynamics vary between these two First Growths, their 2021 grands vins were being sold en primeur as the cheapest of the last four vintages – below current prices on 2018, 2019 and 2020. Merchants were offering Mouton 2021 and Margaux 2021 at £5,100 (12x75cl in bond). Initial signs suggested t ...
The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...
Despite the lowest number of barrels going under the hammer in 15 years, the 2021 Hospices de Beaune charity auction broke per-barrel price records, reaching an impressive total sales figure of €12.5m (£10.48m/$14.09m), excluding buyer premiums. The total was not too far behind last year’s high tally – close to €13.44 million – where almost double the number of barrels were sold. This year’s sale, with 362 lots, including seven barrels of spirits, reached an average price per lot of €34,980 (£29 ...