Cramele Recas

Today, Englishman Philip Cox and his Romanian wife Elvira divide the production and commercial management between them and together have turned the Cramele Recas Estate into the most successful winery in Romania. Recas are now recognized globally for their impressive scale and breadth of fascinating wines, including natural and orange wines made from organic grapes. Despite the increase in scale, the emphasis remains on making quality wines that over-deliver – a magic formula that has recently seen sales boom. The vineyards are a combination of old vines and more recent plantings, and the winery has seen significant investment in state-of-the-art facilities. Recas are in every way a modern, dynamic winery whose open-minded approach and quality sets them apart… a winery you can’t ignore.

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 to 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 across every level of wine made.

Winemaking

The winery has been fully fitted out with stainless steel, automatic temperature-controlled tanks for fermenting and storing the wine. The primary vinification facility has been completely renewed with the best possible equipment for gently crushing, destemming, and pressing the grapes, to be able to maintain all the quality in the grapes whilst doing so in the most environmentally friendly way.