Wine with Leslie: Three wines from Romania — one of Europe’s oldest and best value producers

Romania has made wine for over 6,000 years and still cultivates lots of indigenous grapes (e.g. fetească neagră, fetească regală) as well as imported noble ones

Once part of the Roman Empire, then the Ottoman, and then the Hapsburg Empire, it is worth a visit. Romanian is a Romance language but does have some Slavic loanwords.

I consider myself a proud European, but I have been rather remiss in writing about the wines of some of the EU’s eastern members, especially Romania, one of Europe’s oldest and best value wine producers.

In January this year Cramela Recas (‘Recas Winery’) invited me over. It was a fascinating trip, not least because the vineyards had a heavy fall of snow and looked picture perfect.