The Winery La Cetate is one of the world's great estates. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Dealurile Olteniei to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery La Cetate wines in Dealurile Olteniei among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery La Cetate wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery La Cetate wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery La Cetate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of sauté of pork with chorizo, wild rice salad with tuna or light tuna-tomato quiche (without cream).
On the nose the white wine of Winery La Cetate. often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, oaky or citrus and sometimes also flavors of apples, peach or butter.
IG Dealurile Olteniei (Oltenia Hills) is a wine producing area (Geographical Indication) covering the five counties of the region of Oltenia in Southwest Romania. A broad selection of international and Romanian Grape varieties are cultivated.
Key grape varieties grown:
White: Chardonnay, Feteasca Alba, Feteasca Regala, Pinot Gris, Riesling Italiano (Welschriesling), Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Muscat Ottonel, Tamaioasa Romaneasca, Pink Tamaioasa, Cramposie Selectionata, Ugni Blanc, Viognier
Red and rosé: Cabernet Sauvignon, Feteasca Neagra, Merlot, Negru de Dragasani, Novac, Pinot Noir, Syrah, Babeasca Neagra, Dornfelder, Sangiovese, Zinfandel, Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Cabernet Franc
The Climate here is temperate-continental, with hot summers and Warm autumns which aid grape ripening. Vineyards are located on Open slopes and ampitheatres which a range of exposures from south to west.
One of the main producers is Crama Oprisor Winery, located in Mehedinti, with around 250 hectares (620 acres) of vineyards. This is owned by the German firm Reh Kendermann, and produces the Val Duna brand.
Mehedinti DOC Lies within the boundaries of Oltenia and the IG Dealurile Olteniei zone. Within the DOC the IG designation (essentially equivalent to a French IGP) is used for various wines, due to more relaxed rules regarding production and vineyard location.
Winemaking history in Dealurile Oltenie
Archaeological finds have shown that viticulture and winemaking has been present in what is now Oltenia since at least the first century BC. However from the Middle Ages until the 19th century they area was very much a theatre of war and Center of revolution, as a focus of conflict between the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires.
Furthermore, from the 1860s the region’s vineyards were decimated by Phylloxera. Some local varieties were irretrievably lost.
How Winery La Cetate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of boeuf lôc lac (cambodia), leg of lamb with baked potatoes or phad thai (thai style fried noodles).
On the nose the red wine of Winery La Cetate. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.
A very old variety native to Romania, found much more in Romanian Moldavia and Wallachia, almost unknown in France, but registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A2. According to Viala and Vermorel, it is the black form of feteasca alba. It should not be confused with feteasca regala.
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