Chardonnay from Romania

[Innkeeper]

If you will check the report by Caroline Gilby MW (and English) in Tom Stevenson’s “Wine Report 2004”, pp 175-184; you will find that she talks about quality Romanian wine for export strictly in futuristic terms. She is optimistic about the out years, and acknowledges some quality in wines for local consumption. The problem, as I understand it, is that when Communism fell the land was redistributed in tiny plots. This has given the tiny producers little option but to sell to large negociants producing mediocre wine. Some have gradually been able to acquire larger hecacreage, plant new stock, and show signs of good quality wine.