CRAMELE RECAS, 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 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
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, pressing the grapes- to be able to maintain all the quality in the grapes whilst doing so in the most environmentally friendly way.
- The Umbrele and Calusari wines are fresh, fruity and extremely approachable.
- Indigenous Romanian as well as international varietals carefully selected from re-established vineyards as well as innovative winemaking techniques are used for the Alamina project.
- Solara Orange is a white wine macerated on its skins, and a great example of the latest evolution in wine style.