Wine Secrets of Romania: Transylvania Region Vol III – Book of the month March 2025
Spring 2025 brings good news: Volume III of "Wine Secrets of Romania" series has just been published, a series of books created within the ProViRo project (Winelover Romania's Project) by the Winelover Romania Association.
I had the joy of buying the book the other day, as soon as it came out of print and today, March 1st 2025, I recommend it as the "Book of the Month" in the Winesday App.
What you need to know about Winelover is an international community of wine lovers, with more than 28,000 wine lovers worldwide. Within this community, we also have a Winelover Romania representative, an association that does everything possible to make Romanian grape varieties and Romanian wineries known outside of Romania. For this reason, Winelover Romania created the ProViRo project, within which it publishes several books dedicated to the most famous wine regions from our country.
The third volume is dedicated to Transylvania region, it has just been plublished in a limited number of copies and is written by Julia & Bruno Scavo.The volume is written in English and the focus was on the recognition of Romanian wines outside of Romania.
Răzvan Stoenescu, the initiator of Winelover Romania, is the one who took care of all the necessary organization for Julia & Bruno to visit the wineries in Transylvania Region, to know the story of the wineries, to taste the wines produced in each one of them and then to tell the story about the experience they had at the wineries in this area. The volume is written in English and is intended to reach as many wine connoisseurs in the world as possible: the international Winelover community, sommelier schools and wine educators, specialized magazines, international wine competitions organizers, libraries. Currently only a limited number of books are available for sale in Romania.
For the project of books about Romanian wines Răzvan chose specialists from the world of wine outside of Romania precisely so that they could discover Romanian wines and be able to tell the story after they tasted them.
Returning to the third volume, the one dedicated to the Transylvania region, it includes the following chapters:
I had the joy of buying the book the other day, as soon as it came out of print and today, March 1st 2025, I recommend it as the "Book of the Month" in the Winesday App.
What you need to know about Winelover is an international community of wine lovers, with more than 28,000 wine lovers worldwide. Within this community, we also have a Winelover Romania representative, an association that does everything possible to make Romanian grape varieties and Romanian wineries known outside of Romania. For this reason, Winelover Romania created the ProViRo project, within which it publishes several books dedicated to the most famous wine regions from our country.
The third volume is dedicated to Transylvania region, it has just been plublished in a limited number of copies and is written by Julia & Bruno Scavo.The volume is written in English and the focus was on the recognition of Romanian wines outside of Romania.
Răzvan Stoenescu, the initiator of Winelover Romania, is the one who took care of all the necessary organization for Julia & Bruno to visit the wineries in Transylvania Region, to know the story of the wineries, to taste the wines produced in each one of them and then to tell the story about the experience they had at the wineries in this area. The volume is written in English and is intended to reach as many wine connoisseurs in the world as possible: the international Winelover community, sommelier schools and wine educators, specialized magazines, international wine competitions organizers, libraries. Currently only a limited number of books are available for sale in Romania.
For the project of books about Romanian wines Răzvan chose specialists from the world of wine outside of Romania precisely so that they could discover Romanian wines and be able to tell the story after they tasted them.
Returning to the third volume, the one dedicated to the Transylvania region, it includes the following chapters:
- Brief history and winemaking in Transylvania
- Modern and present- day winemaking
- Grape varieties of Transylvania
- The wineries: stories, wines, tasting
- Geographic position and climate of the PDO "Aiud"
- Geographic position and climate of the PDO "Sebes-Apold"
- North Transylvania. The wineries: stories, wines, tastin- Geographic position and climate of the PDO "Lechinta"
- Part of Crisana and Maramures. The wineries: stories, wines, tastin- Geographic position and climate of the PDO "Crisana"
- Satmar zone
- Geographic position and climate of the PDO "Sebes-Apold"
- North Transylvania. The wineries: stories, wines, tastin- Geographic position and climate of the PDO "Lechinta"
- Part of Crisana and Maramures. The wineries: stories, wines, tastin- Geographic position and climate of the PDO "Crisana"
- Satmar zone
- Oenotourism attractions
- Romanian traditional dishes and wine pairing
- Lexicon
Reasons to read the book: you will get to know the wineries, the wines and the stories around the wines of Transylvania.
Where you can find the book: Online, on Winelover Romania Association's website, in the shop.
The cost of the book is 115 ron plus shipping fees if the book has to be sent by courier. Moreover, on the same website you can also find Vol I and Vol II of the series.
Carmina Nițescu
Winesday & Winesday App
Where you can find the book: Online, on Winelover Romania Association's website, in the shop.
The cost of the book is 115 ron plus shipping fees if the book has to be sent by courier. Moreover, on the same website you can also find Vol I and Vol II of the series.
Carmina Nițescu
Winesday & Winesday App