"Perfumed Pinot nose offering beetroot and red berries; lovely light silky palate. A little sweet and ripe with good intensity, very tasty and delicious and great value. Lovely finish."
As you walk through the rolling vineyards of the 700 hectare Cramele Recas estate, two things are inescapable. The first is the scale of the transformation that Englishman and Bristolian Philip Cox and his wife Elvira have managed to achieve, replanting 700 hectares of decrepit vineyards and replacing them with immaculately tended sites the equal of anywhere else in the world. The second is that if you didn’t know where you were, you’d be convinced you were in Tuscany or any other ‘Classic’ wine producing region - and, to a certain extent you are, Romania has a history of winemaking stretching back millenia and it was this potential that has driven this dynamic duo to dedicate their lives to driving forward Romanian winemaking to it’s current state of rude health. A 20 million euro investment in the vineyards and brand new winery, as well as recruiting seasoned new world winemakers, has enabled them to produce top quality reds and whites from a broad range of varietals at very competitive prices.
Recently selected by Fiona Beckett (The Guardian) as her Wine of the Week http://www.matchingfoodandwine.com/news/bottles/calusari-pinot-noir----a-brilliant-pinot-noir-for-599/ and alos featured in the Guardian Weekend Magazine, 10th August: “…good pinot noir is eye-wateringly expensive. You can just about satisfy a burgundy craving in the £20-30 price bracket, but the best cost a fair bit more…My bargain pinot is a good deal cheaper than that though. OK, it’s not in the burgundy league, but the Calusari Pinor Noir 2012 (13% abv), from Romania, delivers a satisfying hit of exotically dark, distinctively Pinot-ish fruit for just £5.99 at the moment from dbmwines.co.uk…”
