Solevari Reserve, Feteasca Regala, DOC, Viile Timisului, Romania

Description

Tasting Note:  Fresh jasmine flower and white peach on the nose, the palate is packed with stone fruit flavours such as apricot and is smooth and crisp on the finish.

Food Matching: Thai green curry with prawns.

Grape varieties: Feteasca Regala 100%

Producer Profile:  The Cramele Recas Estate, owned by Englishman, Philip Cox and his Romanian wife Elvira, have put in a huge amount of work into transforming their slice of grape growing history into a contemporary winemaking haven.

The immaculate vineyards are a combination of evolved plantings from 1447 and much more recent plantings too. With recent investments into modernising and improving their winery, they regularly host world-class flying winemakers, vintage to vintage, to work with their team. This enables them to create top quality wines and constantly challenge themselves to push innovations and approach winemaking with an open mind.

Viticulture: The winemaking team, Hartley Smithers from Australia, and Nora Iriate from Spain, together with veterans of over 50 harvests in all the world’s wine-producing regions, oversee the production of all the wines from grapes to bottle with fanatical attention to detail. The philosophy is simple – to apply the absolute best production methods to every single wine, to enhance and preserve the natural quality of the grapes, and provide a consistently high-quality product every year for every level of wine made.