A new book about Ştirbey Winery

A new book about Ştirbey Winery

Dear friends of Ştirbey wines, Recently we launched a new communication medium of our Ştirbey winery in Drăgăşani, opening the first page of our Facebook, wishing to create a true book, full of tales and images: showing the history and tradition of Ştirbey Domaines,...
Summer in Red

Summer in Red

After a capricious start of this year´s summer, in the last weeks this season finally showed its true character – with heat of more than 40 degrees, giving us the welcome opportunity to keep an extended siesta in the tradition of our Latin brothers in Italy and Spain...
Prince Stirbey en Rose

Prince Stirbey en Rose

If you look on the Internet for “Rose (without accent!) Prince Ştirbey”, you may find not only our wines, but also a true rose, in the website of the rose nursery Fabien Ducher in Chateauneuf (in the Loire valley, without “du-Pape!”), described as follows: ROSE PRINCE...
Sparkling wine for conversation

Sparkling wine for conversation

Like shoes help you walking, like the bed helps sleeping or the fork helps eating, sparkling wine supports conversation. We can very well walk barefoot, sleep on bare earth or eat with hands, like we can also live without speaking and without chinking glasses. But if...
Nature’s Organ Point

Nature’s Organ Point

Last week, nature let us understand with its overwhelming force how small and insignificant we are: In the evening of 10th July, a violent hailstorm ravaged nearly all vineyards on Dealul Olt in Drăgăşani, destroying within 10 minutes our whole work of this year – and...
Spring Impressions

Spring Impressions

In April, Ileana and I stole some days from our agenda for a short excursion of (re-)discoveries in Romania. Travelling through landscapes of unspoiled nature, 10 to 15 years ago, finding biospheres where man and nature still lived in a perfect balance, not affected...