Dec 20, 2014 | Newsletters
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...
Jul 18, 2014 | Newsletters
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...
May 8, 2013 | Newsletters
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...
Dec 12, 2012 | Newsletters
Since we gave rebirth to Știrbey wines from Drăgășani, we were (and still are!) looking for evidences of Știrbey wines’ tradition – in archives and antique shops, at collectors and senior friends. One of these evidences is an advertising found by a good friend...
Nov 15, 2012 | Newsletters
Recently we presented our autumn coleection at the restaurant “Madame Pogany” in Bucharest: Spumant 2007 Vinified of 100% Crâmpoșie grapes, 2007 vintage from Foișor vineyard, the base wine was aged one year in oak barrels, before being bottled for the...