Crama Delta Dunarii La Sapata Feteasca Regala Orange

Crama Delta Dunarii is a joint venture between Roberto di Filippo and his team from Umbria in Italy and Roberto Pieroni who lives for many years in Romania. Together they have planted 20 ha pristinely looked after vineyards near the town of Tulcea in Dobrogea region that are organically certified nowadays, and have focused on traditional artisanal vineyard keeping and winemaking methods to achieve the best results in their wines.

Nature in the Danube delta has a magical quality of its own. It is a region where the bond between people, vineyards and countryside has led to a symbiose which is unique in the world. Their business is the fruit of a project which reflects the criteria of ethical investment as along with the splendid geographical location and the potential of the land they have also felt that this investment could lead to great social changes in this rural region.

The population here has experienced moments of great difficulty, and even now, through necessity, many have to rely on their own resources to get by. As a result of this difficulty, many Romanians have had to immigrate to the cities and abandon the country and the vineyards. By helping prevent this exodus and by managing to ensure work for the local population the important tradition of vineyard keeping and wine production in the region will not be lost.

Feteasca Regala,

After hand picking in small crates, meticulous sorting in the winery, pressed and 100% spontaneous wild fermentation, the wine here is left with 6 months of maceration on skins and seeds and it is bottled unfiltered.

Complex aromas of apricots, peaches, lychee, bergamot and some fresh and uplifting citrus. The palate appears more typically orange with clear structure from the tannin and is fuller and more “serious” than the nose suggests. Amongst all this there are notes of all the ripe fruits, berries and flowers that you found on the nose, but to a much more subdued degree, alongside a mild tangerine, peach ice tea and strawberry yogurt notes, very well balanced and long on the palate.

Best served with Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine, aromatic rice, smoked aubergine.