>>> Romania, in 11th place out of the 42 participating countries
Bucharest, February 29, 2024 – RBJ (Photo: Marinela Ardelean, founder of the Wines of Romania platform) – The spring session of the international wine competition MUNDUS VINI Grand International Wine Award, held last week in Germany, brought Romanian wines a total of 71 medals, including 46 gold and 25 silver. Our producers entered 183 wine labels in the competition. These recognitions placed Romania in 11th place out of a total of 42 participating countries.
Among the 16 award-winning Romanian wineries are Jidvei, with 6 gold and 5 silver medals, Crama Gîrboiu, with 9 gold medals and one silver, Cramele Recaș, with 3 gold and 7 silver medals, Vintruvian Estates with 5 gold medals and SERVE, with 3 gold medals.
In total, at this tasting session, 7,430 samples were entered and 2,974 wines were awarded, of which 1,727 won gold medals.
At the prestigious competition, the international wine expert Marinela Ardelean judged as committee president, being for the 5th consecutive year in this position, out of the 10 years since he has been part of the competition jury.
“These medals are a reason for joy for our entire industry and I am glad that the award-winning producers will have an additional argument in the communication of their wines at future high-profile fairs such as Prowein, Vinitaly or RO-Wine. I wish that at the summer session of MUNDUS VINI we will have even more Romanian wines, especially since some producers, although they did not enter many wines in the competition, only received gold medals. After the 2 sessions of the competition, it is clear that we will surpass the medal total from 2023, when we had an honorable performance, but one that kept us in line with Austria, South Africa and the Czech Republic, still far from Georgia, France or Portugal,” said Marinela Ardelean, founder of the Wines of Romania platform.
Romanian wine producers, medalists at the spring session of MUNDUS VINI:
1. Jidvei – 6 gold medals, 5 silver
2. Gîrboiu Winery – 9 gold medals, 1 silver medal
3. Cramele Recaș – 3 gold medals, 7 silver (three samples entered into the competition by the distributor)
4. Vintruvian Estates – 5 gold medals
5. Crama Ceptura – 3 gold medals, 2 silver
6. Carl Reh Winery – 2 gold medals, 3 silver
7. Franco-Romanian fields – 3 gold medals, 1 silver
8. SERVE – 3 gold medals
9. Apcovin (Father and Son) – 3 gold medals
10. Strunga Winery / PFA Stegariu Florin – 2 gold medals, 1 silver
11. Domeniile Averești – 3 silver medals
12. Unicom Production (Davino) – 2 gold medals
13. Rasova – 2 gold medals
14. Corcova – 2 gold medals
15. Budureasca – 2 silver medals
16. Viti-Pomicola Sâmburești – 1 gold medal
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