Romanian wine

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Romania is one of the world's largest wine producers, producing (as of 2003) around 545,700 tonnes of wine. In recent years, Romania has attracted many European business people and wine buyers, due to the cheap prices of both vineyards and wines compared to other wine producing nations such as France, Germany, and Holland.^[1]

Contents 1 History 2 Wine producing regions 3 See also 4 References

[edit] History

Wine was first introduced 3,000 years ago in Dacia (present-day Romania) by the Greeks, who arrived from the Black Sea.^[2] Due to the mild mediterranean climate and fertile Danube Delta, the location proved to be successful and the grape vineyards thrived.

Later on, during the medieval ages, Saxons immigrated to Romania, bringing along with them different variations of Germanic grape vines. However, by the 1800s, most of these grape vines were replaced by grapes from Western Europe.^[3]

In the 1880s, phylloxera (a pale yellow sap-sucking insect that attacks the roots of vines) arrived in Romania from North America. The phylloxera wiped out a majority of Europe's vineyards, including those in Romania. Eventually, many of the Romanian vines were replaced by those imported from France and other foreign nations, such as Merlot, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir.

In 2003, Romania was the twelfth largest wine producing country in the world.

[edit] Wine producing regions

• Cotnari
• Dealu Mare
• Murfatlar
• Odobeşti
• Recaş
• Târnave
• Vânju Mare

[edit] See also

• Cuisine of Romania

[edit] References