🗺️ Moldovan wine
The country's wine and winemaking: regions, grapes, appellations.
Moldovan wine is the wine and winemaking of Moldova. The country is small, but viticulture is one of its main industries, and vineyards lie almost everywhere.
Moldova is divided into wine zones: Codru in the centre, Valul lui Traian in the south, Ștefan Vodă in the south-east and Bălți in the north. Both international grapes, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, and local ones are grown: Fetească Albă, Fetească Regală, Rară Neagră, Fetească Neagră. Among the names are specifically Moldovan ones too: Coarnă Neagră, Coarnă Albă, Tigvoasă, Țâța Caprei, Frumoasă Albă, Flamingo.
Huge underground cellars are well known, holding millions of bottles. The country produces wine of several categories: ordinary, vintage-label and collection wine. Fortified wine, dessert wine, Kagor and Divin, the Moldovan brandy, are also made. Moldovan wines are protected by the IGP system. They are part of the wines of Europe but are still little known outside the region. In recent years winemakers have been betting on quality, local grapes and exports.
What it includes
How it connects to Wine
🗺️ Moldovan wine → kind of → 🗺️ Wines of Europe → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 🗺️ Wines of Europe
- Native grapes
- 🍇 Frumoasă Albă, 🍇 Coarnă Neagră, 🍇 Coarnă Roșie, 🍇 Marshalskii, 🍇 Moldova, 🍇 Tigvoasă, 🍇 Kodryanka, 🍇 Coarnă Albă, 🍇 Țâța Caprei, 🍇 Flamingo
- Wines made here
- 🍷 Kagor, 🍷 Homemade wine
- Classifications
- 🏷️ Ordinary wine, 🏷️ Vintage-quality wine, 🏷️ Collection wine, 🏷️ Ukrainian dessert wine category, 🏷️ Strong fortified wine category, 🏷️ Moldovan IGP regions
- Grape products
- 🥃 Divin
Frequently asked questions
What wine zones are there in Moldova?
Codru, Valul lui Traian, Ștefan Vodă and Bălți.
Which grapes are typical?
Fetească Albă, Fetească Regală, Rară Neagră and others.
What is Divin?
The Moldovan brandy, a strong spirit made from grapes.
What to read next
- 🍇 Kodryanka — An early Moldovan table grape with large black berries.
- 🍷 Kagor — A dark sweet fortified wine used in church in Ukraine and Moldova.
- 🏷️ Vintage-quality wine — A Ukrainian and Moldovan category of aged quality wine from a specific area.
- 🥃 Divin — Moldovan grape brandy; the name is protected as a mark of Moldova.
- 🍇 Coarnă Albă — An old table grape of Moldova and Romania with white berries.
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🗺️ Ukrainian wine · 🗺️ Maltese wine · 🗺️ Lithuanian wine · 🗺️ Estonian wine · 🗺️ Latvian wine · 🗺️ Irish wine
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