Cramele Recas 'Sole de Recas' Barrique Chardonnay, Romanian White Wine

            Recaș are a pretty big thing. I hadn’t heard of them until recently but in their decade and a bit of trading they seem to have grown immensely. 10 years and more than 30 million Euros of investment since will probably do that for you - at this point they are one of the biggest producers in Romania. FYI Cramele means ‘cellar’.

Recaș is a town in Timiș County, Banat, Romania - located on the far western fringes of the Romanian region of Transylvania/Banat. Some say that the Banat region of Romania was where Bacchus, the god of wine, spent his childhood (cool story bro, tell it again?). As well as mythology, the area has history - the first records of winemaking around here date back from the period of the Roman invasion and annexation of Dacia, circa 106 AD (those bloody Romans, eh?). The area has a Mediterranean climate and Romania occupies much the same latitudes as France's key wine regions.

But yeah, today Cramele Recas is a private Romanian/British company owned by a team consisting of three families - they bought the vineyards and winery off the local state cooperative. I recently met one of the people behind Recaș, Philip Cox – Co-Founder and Commercial Director, who got into the drinks industry in the early 90s when he founded a company that imported Heineken to Bulgaria. He seemed nice enough.

This Chardonnay's price comes in at about £7 on average and at 14% it seems rather punchy for a white wine! The 2012 vintage snagged Bronze from at Decanter's World Wine Awards.  Cramele Recas have a LOT of ranges, more than twelve at my last count. Sole is just one. Others include ’Cosmina’ ‘Dreambird’ and ‘Calusari’. Their site proclaims "Sole is the bow we make to the Sun, essential ingredient in winemaking”. I’m not entirely sure what it means but I assume it’s a bit like the sun salute but with a lot more drinking.

Taken on: March 6, 2015

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