Wines of Romania Podcast

Adrian Cocan is co-founder of Lăptăria cu Caimac (Creamy Dairy), an artisanal Romanian dairy specializing in top-of-the-line products and one of the first to join Carrefour's “Poftim, brânză românească!” (Here / We Crave Romanian Cheese) national program. 🧀🍷 Interview highlights: - What to look for when trying to choose a fine cheese from the shelves; - Romania had a lot of diversity in chee...

Livia Gîrboiu is a young entrepreneur, a mother and a wine lover determined to take the Romanian wine to the world. 🍷 Interview highlights: - The Romanian wine consumer is nationalist and it helps us; - We need to invest in wine tourism; - Romanian wines are easy to understand and easy to drink; - Șarba is a very versatile grape variety, it goes well by itself, in spritzers, paired with anything;...

A member of the Romanian Academy and son of an academician, Professor Valeriu V. Cotea is one of the most important people in Romanian research, but also an elite trainer, through whose hands countless engineers, winegrowers and oenologists have passed. 🍷 From the interview: - Moldova owns almost half of Romania's wine-growing area, - For some, being an engineer sounds more important than bei...

Cătălin Păduraru is CEO of the International Wine Competition Bucharest / Vinarium, editor, wine writer and founder of the Romanian wine retail. The Wines of Romania podcast invites to a discussion about the needs of Romanian wine - from institutions to training young people and from recovering the wine history to the need for centralized communication. 🍷 Interview highlights: - We have to prove...

Wines of Romania invites you to a special episode where we discuss the wine market and Romanian wines with one of the top contemporary experts - Robert Joseph. What did we discuss? •⁠ ⁠Romania is ahead of Moldova but behind Slovenia and Georgia in establishing itself as a premium wine producer, with Croatia coming up strong. •⁠ ⁠Moldova started from a lower material base, with fewer financial reso...

O discuție prietenească despre muzică, vin și asortarea dintre acestea, despre cum se găsește echilibrul într-un parteneriat, despre asemănări și deosebiri între asociați, cu jazzman-ul Marcel Pascu, co-proprietar al Gramofon Wine. Ați avut deja ocazia să descoperiți „jumătatea contabilă” a companiei, în episodul de podcast dedicat, dar și în celelalte materiale realizate la cramă, acum a vinit vr...

The latest Wines of Romania podcast episode introduces Roberto di Fillipo and Robero Pieroni, Italian investors who built a small winery in Dobrogea, close to the Danube Delta. They share valuable knowledge, experience and insights regarding both the domestic and the international market. 🍷 The Wines of Romania podcast is inspired by Deschidem Vinul Românesc (We Open the Romanian Wine), a nationa...

🇷🇴 On Romania's National Day, Marinela Ardelean invited Mircea Niculescu, Wine Buyer for Carrefour Romania and, implicitly, one of the key people of the Deschidem Vinul Românesc / We Open the Romanian Wine program. We discuss the destiny of Romanian wine, the power of wine to represent us in the world, the investment of heart and trust in DVR and much more. 🍷 🎙️ The Wines of Romania podcast i...

Wines of Romania invites you to meet Ramona Chiriac, head of the European Commission Representation in Romania, in a discussion with Marinela Ardelean about unity, solidarity and the way European funds help regions and nations grow. 🍷 🎙️ The Wines of Romania podcast is inspired by Deschidem Vinul Românesc (We Open the Romanian Wine), a national program developed by Carrefour Romania, dedicated eq...

This episode, the Wines of Romania podcast takes a dive into the intricacies of the largest wine group in Romania, Vintruvian Estates, which holds four wineries in three different regions. We discuss terroir, identity, single vineyard wines and many more. 🍷 🎙The Wines of Romania podcast is inspired by Deschidem Vinul Românesc (We Open the Romanian Wine), a national program developed by Carrefour...

Wines of Romania invites you to an episode decicated to the first wine made of Alutus grapes at the Avincis Winery, Cuvée Valerius, Alutus Primus. A discussion with Valeriu Stoica, owner of the winery, about the destiny of Romanian wines and of local grape varieties, about work, love, poetry and family. 🍷 🎙️ The Wines of Romania podcast is inspired by Deschidem Vinul Românesc (We Open the Romania...

The guarantee-return system represent a (recoverable) expense for the consumer, but is also a complex and difficult to evaluate economic process for producers and retailers. Packaging recycling is a priority assumed by law, but the way the new regulations will impact the market is still difficult to understand and evaluate. Marius Brînzea, strategy manager Reciclad'Or, explains what we can exp...

Wines of Romania invites to an episode dedicated to the world of biodynamic wines. Meet Amelia Mihalcea, co-owner of the Bogdan Estate, in a story about the principles of biodynamic agriculture – respect towards nature, environment and biodiversity. Discover with us the only biodynamic Fetească neagră in the world and learn about differences between biodynamic and conventional wines. 🍷 The Wines...

Wines of Romania has the pleasure to invite you to watch a special podcast episode: a meeting with the members of the de Poix family, in a corner of Corsican paradise, at the same table where, over a glass of rosé wine, the SERVE Winery was born some 30 years ago. At Domaine Peraldi, reborn in the 60s, we talk to Charlotte and Amaury, after whom the first super premium blends in Romania were named...

🇬🇧 Modest, but determined, always paying attention to the needs of others and with an innate need for innovation, Constantin Duluțe, owner of Domeniile Averești, makes a fair analysis of the Romanian wine market, from producers to the final consumers, including the way that we introduce ourselves to the world. 💛 Romanian wine has certainly a future. A better one, should we be determined to do our...

Cotnari is one of the leaders of the Romanian wine market and has a special signature, producing only high quality wines, exclusively from Romanian varieties. In recent years, the company has transitioned to a second generation of owners, heirs to the founders. 🍷 We invite you to meet Remus Deleanu, co-owner and CEO of the Cotnari company, for more than two years, in the new episode of the Wines...

Liviu Năstase, co-owner of Valdo Invest, actively supports the Romanian wine industry. For over 25 years, he has contributed to the opening and upgrading of wineries, seen the Romanian wine grow in quality and volume, and how more delicate wines are put on the market. The Wines of Romania podcast is inspired by Deschidem Vinul Românesc (We Open the Romanian Wine), a national program developed by C...

🇬🇧 Aneta Pleșa, Industry Manager Google Romania, talks about how Google can help both wine lovers and producers, but also about the latest trends, top searches, audience size, budgets, wine tourism, exports or optimal length of a video. The Wines of Romania Podcast is inspired by Carrefour Romania’s Deschidem Vinul Romanesc (We Open the Romanian Wine) program - the first national initiative dedica...

🇬🇧 Monica Dinu, Managing Partner Old Team Distribution is a "pure-blooded entrepreneur" who started building her own business in order to preserve her freedom. She doesn't believe in the 8-hours a day schedule. She started working with wines without understanding the world hidden behind the labels but, after 13 years, she fell in love with wine, and the company now has no less than 7...

Our partners at Biosystems introduced for the first time in Romania, within the RO-Wine festival, a state-of-the-art platform dedicated to wine analytics, which has the possibility to add new modules over time and whose software is updated periodically. About Spica, but also about the Romanian wine and the Biosystems adventure in Romania, we have Theodor Diaconu, Country Manager, and Gabriel Andro...

🇬🇧 After 20 years of distribution, Zoe Ghiuri reinvented herself in the vineyard and winery in Rasova. On Women's Day, we introduce you to a lady of the wine world that you rarely see on TV or online, but whose activity is increasingly felt in the world of wine lovers. Podcast inspired by Carrefour Romania’s Deschidem Vinul Romanesc (We Open the Romanian Wine) program - the first national init...

🇬🇧 Sergiu Savu is the youngest winemaker, probably in all of Romania, but certainly among the producers included in Carrefour We Open the Romanian wine program - where Pivnița Savu, his family's business, is also the winery with the smallest vineyard. A story about youth, ambition and the need to have your own path, with a young man in whom we can catch a glimpse about the future of Romanian w...

🇬🇧 In a "small town", hidden in a garden on the outskirts of Bucharest, the experts who take care of the vineyards, make the wine and, in general, the doctors and engineers who work in nature are born. We discuss specialized higher education with vice-rector Răzvan Teodorescu and oenologist Cornel Baniță. Podcast inspired by Carrefour Romania’s Deschidem Vinul Romanesc (We Open the Roman...

Claudiu Necșulescu, Jidvei: Vinul nu poate fi disociat de suflet Proprietarul Jidvei ne spune în exclusivitate povestea celei mai mari afaceri din vinul românesc, despre lucrurile pe care le-a învățat de la tatăl său și pe care le încearcă să le transmită fiicelor sale. Și nu doar atât, ci și care este diferența dintre echipa și familie, ce înseamnă să construiești pentru viitor și care sunt indic...

Biosystems is a family business turned into a global company with 700 employees serving customers in over 120 countries. For us wine lovers, Biosystems are the ones who help producers monitor the quality of wine from the juice analysis through the fermentation and ageing processes and even after bottling. Thousands of samples are analyzed daily in all corners of the world to ensure that the wines...