Umbrele Pinot Grigio Rosé, Vilie Timisului, Romania, 2020

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 push innovations and approach winemaking with an open mind.

Viticulture

Winemaking team, Hartley Smithers from Australia, and Nora Iriate from Spain, together veterans of over 50 harvests in all the world's wine producing regions, oversee the production of all the wines from grapes till bottle with a 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.

Winemaking

Harvesting time is determined through monitoring the ripeness of the grapes After selection, the grapes are destalked, crushed, and the must including skins, is cooled. After maceration thecrushed grape mass is softly pressed. One hundred percent Pinot Grigio grapes are pressed with just the right amount of contact with their skins to give it its delightful colour and character. The grapes are then processed in the tried and true ways of the best white wines in controlled temperatures.

Oak Treatment

No oak treatment

Tasting Note

A short fermentation on the skins gives this modern style Pinot Grigio a delicate pink coppery colour, a crisp and intense aroma as well as a harmonious and fruity taste with notes of peach. A lovely pale colour is the entree into a light, citrusy, floral aroma of almond, pear and green apple.