Calusari, Pinot Noir

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 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.

25% of the grapes were transferred directly into 1000kg bins without being destemmed then sealed and put through a carbonic maceration and fermentation for 10 days in order to produce a strawberry, fruity part of the blend. The remaining 75% was destemmed, lightly crushed and then macerated and fermented normally at 25°C in stainless steel automated fermenters.

Both wines where then separately pressed and the non-carbonic maceration wine was lightly oaked for 2 months with French oak. Finally, the winemakers created a perfect blend of the two wines and it was prepared for bottling.