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Suitable for Vegetarians
Suitable for Vegans
100% Gluten-free
No added Sulphur
Cramele Recas Solara, Orange
Suitable for Vegetarians
Suitable for Vegans
100% Gluten-free
No added Sulphur
Product Details
Producer Profile
The Cramele Recas Estate, owned by Englishman, Philip Cox and his Romanian wife Elvira, have put in a huge amount of work into transforming their slice of grape growing history into a contemporary winemaking haven.
The immaculate vineyards are a combination of evolved plantings from 1447 and much more recent plantings too. With recent investments into modernising and improving their winery, they regularly host world class flying winemakers, vintage to vintage, to work with their team. This enables them to create top quality wines and constantly challenge themselves push innovations and approach winemaking with an open mind.
Viticulture
A mountainous terrain surrounds the vineyards and dominates the landscape.
Winemaking
Refreshing like a white wine, with the complexity of red wine. This orange wine is made by leaving the grape skins and seeds in contact with the pressed juice, creating a deep orange-hued finish. The wine ferments naturally without the addition of yeasts, sulphur or any other additions. The different varieties are then blended and before a natural cold stabilisation, and bottled unfiltered and unfined.
Oak Aging
No oak aging
Food Matching
Hard and semi hard cheese, tuna steak and chicken.
Tasting Note
Dark straw colour with orange hints, the nose is a delicate mélange of quince, poire william and a hint of vanilla. A complex and structured wine, with elegant but discreet fruit flavours of stone fruits, backed up with a powerful tannin structure and long finish. A natural minimal intervention wine which is well balanced and structured yet pure and incredibly fresh.
Region
Romania
People's Choice Wine Awards Finalist- 2024
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Overall rating: 4.263158 / 5 from 19 reviews.
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Not as nice as other
"Not as nice as other orange wines I have tried. Will not be re purchasing."
Summer Wine
"Great drink. Fantastic alternative to white and rose on a warm summers afternoon . Not too sweet , not too sharp ."
Loved This Wine
"Absolutely loved the this wine! This absolutely blew me away, so bright and refreshing, with gorgeous flavours. I enjoyed my first bottle so much that I placed another order straight away. A new favourite!"
It looked interesting
"And by jove it tasted interesting. In a good way"
Unusual
"A lovely taste , unusual name … kept me thinking of oranges 😊 but really nice"
Very enjoyable
"Very enjoyable"
Different
"Really interesting. Flavours came through after a couple of sips and nice to have something with an unusual taste for a change."
Amazing,summer in a bottle
"My order always includes orange wine. Fantastic!"
Nice!
"Lovely flavour, needs to be well chilled to enjoy better"