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Increasing foreign interest in Romania’s agricultural lands recently got international media attention with French newspaper Le Monde publishing a piece about foreign buyers of Romanian agricultural land.

The high prices for the agricultural land and the bureaucracy in Western Europe are cited among the reasons foreigners choose to buy land in Romania.

Maxime Laurent, a French Agriculture graduate decided to try his luck in agriculture in Romania, according to Le Monde. He bought some land in Macesu de Sus, in Dolj county, 10 kilometers away from the Danube. His parents didn’t manage to buy more land in France because of the obstacles imposed by the French authorities, so he decided to try Romania, according to Le Monde.

The journalists from “Le Monde” are saying that this should not come as a surprise, as Romania’s agricultural land is a sort of El Dorado for farmers from Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy or Denmark.

The Laurent family invested in agriculture at Macesu de Sus because the field was near the Danube. In Dolj, the Laurent family produces wheat, barley, sunflower and rapeseed. Le Monde highlights that prices for agricultural land in Romania are around EUR 2,000/ha, much less than in Western Europe.

Foreign investors have managed to buy 700,000 ha of agricultural land in Romania – or some 8.3 percent of the country’s total of arable area.

Source: www.romania-insider.com

Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.), family Cucurbitaceae) is a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from southernAfrica. Its fruit, which is known as a watermelon is a special kind of fruit known by botanists as a pepo, a berry which has a thick rind(exocarp) and fleshy center (mesocarp and endocarp); pepos are derived from an inferior ovary, and are characteristic of the Cucurbitaceae.

The watermelon fruit, loosely considered a type of melon (although not in the genus Cucumis), has a smooth exterior rind (green, yellow and sometimes white) and a juicy, sweet interior flesh (usually pink, but sometimes orange, yellow, red and sometimes green if not ripe). It is also commonly used to make a variety of salads, most notably fruit salad.

The sunflower seed is the fruit of the sunflower (Helianthus annuus). The term “sunflower seed” is actually a misnomer when applied to the seed in its pericarp (hull). Botanically speaking, it is more properly referred to as an achene. When dehulled, the edible remainder is called the sunflower kernel.

There are three types of commonly used sunflower seeds. Linoleic (most common), high oleic, and Nusun. Each variety has its own unique levels of monounsaturated, saturated, and polyunsaturated fats. The information in this article refers mainly to the linoleic variety.

For commercial purposes, sunflower seeds are usually classified by the pattern on their husks. If the husk is solid black, the seeds are called black oil sunflower seeds. The crops may be referred to as oilseed sunflower crops. These seeds are usually pressed into sunflower oil. Striped sunflower seeds are primarily used for food; as a result, they may be called confectionery sunflower seeds.

Flour is a powder which is made from grinding cereal grains, other seeds, or roots. It is the main ingredient of bread, which is astaple food for many cultures, making the availability of adequate supplies of flour a major economic and political issue at various times throughout history. Wheat flour is one of the most important foods in European, North American, Middle Eastern and North African cultures, and is the defining ingredient in most of their styles of breads and pastries.

Flour from Romania and Republic of Moldavia

During the reign of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, the first hospodar from Romania, Cotnari wine took part in an international contest for the first time. Thus, in Paris, Grasa de Cotnari was conferred the supreme distinction.
Over the years Grasa de Cotnari an many other wines from Cotnari have been awarded at national and international contests.

International Medals

National Medals

During time, valuable wine collecting was a real passion for a lot of people that appreciate wine to its true value. Is there bigger happiness than inviting a friend or  an aficionado in the personal wine cellar to taste some old wines?
Cotnari offers you collectable wines directly from the personal reserve.

The real art is made of tasting and luxuriation of the wine at table – the place where the wine meets the man.

Casa de Piatra
semidry

Casa de Piatra is a festive wine with a special taste and full aroma. Full of freshness and fruitiness the wine is characterized by the soft perfume of vine flowers. The unique aroma is imposed by equilibrium and distinction. A wine that sits at the table with joy.

2XL
semidry

An impressive wine by its fruity characteristics, 2XL is vigurous but balanced, keeping an enchanting and elegant aroma of well ripped fruit. The body of the wine highlights a taste harmony. The unique flavour and taste make it so pleasant.

Selected wine
semisweet

This velvety superior quality wine is part of the strong aroma and typical bouquet. It surprizes by quality and inimitable flavour. A remarkable mixture made from Francusa, Feteasca Alba and Tamaioasa Romaneasca. Ideal for parties and celebrations. Sprinkle good food and well being with this wine.

The Cotnari wine it is not for drinking but for tasting, it is the divine promise. But when it joins a long feast, drank in moderation it develops noble and surprizing reactions.
Manifesting a sign of distinctive appreciation, the consumer tastes it in transparent glasses enjoying the goldness of the colour also. With a rich history, this liquid gold  carries in it besides sunlight all earth’s exquisiteness and a piece of the craftman’s soul.
The real art is made of tasting and luxuriation of the wine at table – the place where the wine meets the man.

Francusa
dry

Having an easily-recognized identity by the alert note sustained by a good acidity, Francusa distinguishes from other wines by the smooth fruity aroma. The yellow-pale or yellow-greenish colour, the vegetable flavour of ripped grapes and the balanced taste, offers the wine all the qualities for the charming aroma. The aficionados of a fruity, dry white wine prefer Francusa in before other wines from the vineyard.

What would be the earth without the sun
The poet left by holy gift
A meal’s aroma with no salt
Moldavia without the Cotnari spirit…

Dealul Catalina
semidry

High class wine, elegant and distinctive, extractive. This semi-dry wine naturally obtained only from local noble sorts, having an unmistakable aroma, obtained The Greatest Gold Medal in Kisinew, 2008. It impresses by the uniqueness of the flowery flavour.

Feteasca Alba
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Feteasca Alba is the wine that conquers you bi its yellow colour  with greenish touches that becomes golden yellowish by maturation and vintage as well as through soft fruity aroma. Unforgettable by the great complexity flavour, this suggests the perfume of a bloomed vineyard. Gorgeous, with an unmistakable aroma typical to ripped grapes, Feteasca has a specific flavour.

Near the vineyard, while at Harlau court
His Majesty would come to rest and savour
And think no more of hardships of the sovereignty
With the good old Feteasca of Cotnar.

Grasa de Cotnari
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With a greenish colour when young, until golden yellowish to maturation, an autumn like vineyards leaves colour, tasting like walnut kernel, raisins and almond, Grasa de Cotnari wine is unique in all Romanian and foreign wines. Optimum in combination with refined desserts.

With its bloody temper nature
An Arabian stallion Grasa is
Carries strong yet gentle person
And demolishes the weak.

Grasa de Cotnari
sweet

The Jewel Of Romanian Oentology, Grasa is a privilege inhareted by centuries on the hills of this famous vineyard – Cotnari.

The originality and secret of this wine is in the late vintage crop when the must from the grapes is concentrated due to the noble rot.

Tamaioasa Romaneasca
sweet

Tamaioasa Romaneasca is a high class wine, fully flavoured, with an unreachable aroma. The perfume combines basil flavour and mowed hay in the sun. Generous, refreshing, vitalizing, full of sap and body, has the full aroma of pears and strawberries and a high class taste.

The letter says from ancient times
That you have pleased so many
Laughter and tears gathered in lives
Cotnari, the Moldavian fame
The chronicles just shut your name.

Tamaioasa Romaneasca
sweet

Flavoured sort, from which, in the long and sunny autumns from Cotnari vineyards is obtained a high class wine: Tamaioasa Romaneasca.
The refined sensuality of taste is in complete harmony with the unmistakable aroma, giving it distinction through vigor and personality. The special perfume as the basil’s is the fact that made the locals to call it Moldavian Basil.

At Cotnari the inheritance has no equal. The 2000 years old wine profession, the art, tradition and the well being state glitter altogether again. We send over and over the patrimony kept for centuries: a true inheritance in wine making, of the locals living here, of evolution and tradition, probably one of the best kept from this domain in Romania. We still respect the conception and old tradition and that is why the Cotnari will remain the same by the passing of years.

Francusa
dry

Francusa, the dry wine from Cotnari vineyard gathers soft fragrance, casual and distinctive flavor giving it an authentic floral note. Its yellow colour with greenish shades delights the eye, and the unique taste, due to a refreshing note, is maintained by a well balanced acidity. The soft aroma and the fragrance are characteristic of the ripped grapes with an unmistakable fresh and fruity touch.

Chateau Cotnari
dry

The specialists «melted» all the qualities of Tamaioasa Romaneasca, Feteasca Alba and Francusa in a blend that made up a unique and distinctive personality. The ”oentologic masterpiece” gathers the features of the three local sorts into a strong personality, thus covering a great diversity of tastes and preferences of a dry wine aficionados.

Blanc Cotnari
semidry

It is the representative wine of the new generation from Cotnari, obtained through the union of vigor and generosity of traditional Romanian sorts and the modern wine-making technology. This semi-dry wine of remarkable harmony and consistency in which field flowers and citrus flavors combine with the fresh and refined taste delights all the senses.

Grasa de Cotnari
sweet

Grasa de Cotnari 2007 is the wine from an exceptional year and absolute justifies the reputation of the vineyard. The soft and etherated aroma come from the noble rot, phenomenon that appears in a few vineyards of the world, but it awards the warranty of a high class wine. The long time flavor recommends it as a unit in the memory of the most refined pleasures.

Tamaioasa Romaneasca
sweet

Tamaioasa Romaneasca, the wine that carries you away in a symphony of senses: the colour of a radiant yellow with greenish or pale touches depending on the influence of years, and its unrivaled aroma doubles the basil flavour and mowed hay in the sun. Generous, refreshing, vitalizing, full of sap and body, has the full aroma of pears and strawberries and a high class taste.

Romania is one of the world’s largest wine producers, producing (as of 2003) around 545,700 tons of wine. In recent years, Romania has attracted many European business people and wine buyers, due to the affordable prices of both vineyards and wines compared to other wine producing nations such as France, Germany, and Italy.

Wine was first introduced 3,000 years ago in Dacia (present-day Romania) by the Greeks, who arrived from the Black Sea.

Due to the hot dry summers, the location proved to be successful and the grape vineyards thrived. Since the medieval times, wine has been the traditional a

lcoholic beverage of the Romanians.

Later on, during the medieval ages, Saxons emigrated to Romania, bringing along with them different variations of Germanic grape vines. However, by the 1800s, most of these grape vines were replaced by grapes from Western Europe.

In the 1880s, phylloxera (a pale yellow sap-sucking insect that attacks the roots of vines) arrived in Romania  from North America. The phylloxera wiped out a majority of Europe’s vineyards, including those in Romania. Eventually, many of the Romanian vines were replaced by those imported from France and other foreign nations, such as Merlot, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir.

In last years, Romania was the twelfth largest wine producing country in the world.