Visit the Winery

Here we can find a restaurant with a capacity of 100 seats located in the extension of the wine store, where each visitor can purchase whatever wine type they desire. This restaurant offers customers the opportunity of drinking a good wine while eating foods that perfectly fit the chosen assortment.

The restaurant is a tavern-style,

where wood and stone dominate the interior. There is an imposing fireplace where you can wam up in the evening while tasting an ecellent wine from Viişoara Winery. The entire atmosphere, the wine, the products, all create an excellent and relaxing environment. Those that are in a hurry will have the time to enter the store which is located sideways of the Constanţa – Ostrov road (The Roman Road), to admire the exhibition and to buy a bottle of good wine to enjoy once they get home.

Viişoara’s winery construction started on May 9, 2016 and on September 2nd the first processing of that year’s harvest had already started. The Winery’s technology is new, modern and current. The capacity of the winery is 3.100.000 liters.

The Winery’s technology is new, modern and current. The capacity of the winery is 3,100,000 liters (one million and eight hundred thousand liters). On its premises there are white wine vinificators, red wine vinificators, storage tanks plus other double insulated vinificators (for tartar stability), barrels, and a tasting room. Each individual tank is connected through a valve to a central panel, which allows the setting of a certain temperature suitable for the wine variety in each fermentation barrel.

White wine technology – The grapes brought in from vineyards have a high temperature which varies depending on the amount of sunlight in that day. After passing through a destemmer, the grapes go through a large industrial cooler where their temperature drops to 10-12 degrees. This is a mandatory process because pressing them with no prior cooling could lead to undesirable fermentations and loss of individual flavors specific to each variety during the 2-3 hour pressing cycle. Therefore, grape cooling is extremely important and at Viişoara Winery it is a must.

Once cooled, the grapes go through the press with temperatures of up to 10-12 degrees. “In the fermentation process, we count a great deal on temperature. This is why white wine vinificators have two oversized cooling or heating jackets which allow us to quickly set the temperature inside depending on the technology for each variety. “This is how we speed up or slow down the wine fermentation process, while trying to use as fewer substance additions as possible.”

The tanks in the wine cellar also comply with safety and work safety norms standing freely on the platform and not being attached or fixed in concrete. That is why they have several support legs and a concave bottom. Thus, in case of an earthquake accidents are avoided due to this type of basins being specifically created to always remain standing.

The red wine vinificators belong to the latest generation. The pistons once used to periodically immerse the mass of red grapes were eliminated. Those pistons were aggressive and they would damage the grape skin, further damaging the quality of the resulting wine seeing as how the quality of wine virtually lies in the integrity of the skin. That is where the best tannin and the best substances of colour and flavour are found. The harsh pistons are just a distant memory now. Today, wine technology is completely different as well. The grapes now come from the field at a high temperature and they are destemmed. They no longer go through the cooling process or the press, instead they are sucked in and inserted into the red wine vinificators which are provided with a heating jacket. In the fermentation process of the red wine, the temperature needs to be high, but not excessively high and must always be kept under control in order to not compromise the wine. This is why these vinificators also have a cooling jacket, in order to maintain the optimum temperature for each type of wine. “We replaced those pistons in order to avoid aggression towards the wine and the grape. Wine is very sensitive, you have to treat it like you would a woman, you have to be gentle and it will give you gentleness in return.” An inner axis which has a device called “Grandpa’s Hand” tied to it was attached to the red wine vinificator in order to avoid aggression. “Grandpa’s Hand” imitates what our grandparents used to do long ago, at home, when they would regularly go to the red grape vat to mix, more accurately to caress, the content. That way, through this gentle mixing, the integrity of the skin is maintained. If the skin keeps its integrity, a wine of the highest quality will be obtained because that is where the tannin and the substances of colour and flavour are.

It is not to be forgotten that red wine is considered to be an aliment, ranking first among the cancer-fighting foods. Moderate consumption of red wine can prevent colon cancer, prostate affections, and a glass of red wine per day regulates high blood pressure. Meanwhile, a Merlot from Viişoara Winery was dubbed Women’s Discreet Paramour by specialists.

It is often said that “Wine is soul!” and this is very true because the more soul and passion you put into it, the better it is.

Another secret of the Viişoara wine is the “Everything Full” principle. When a certain amount of wine is taken out of a tank, normally an empty space remains. Then the inert gas is added which reacts with the wine, thus avoiding oxidation. We do not do that. We apply the Everything Full principle: we put the wine into bottles without that inert gas content. We always fill the different capacity tanks which makes the use of the inert gas unnecessary. The Everything Full principle is a healthy one, and thus our wine does not cause indigestion.

“Barrel” is a technical term of winemaking and it designates a 225 liters barrel. The word comes from the French “barrique”. There is a story that says the great Napoleon practically invented the unit of measure, the container in itself. According to the legend, the Emperor of France requested that a type of barrel be created (for war preys) that could be divided “drop by drop” into bottles of 0.75.

The barrel has a capacity of 225 liters because it is the only number that when divided by 0.75 gives an exact amount: 300 bottles. That’s also how the 6-bottle boxes were made, to keep an accurate record of each barrel, because 225 liters of wine basically means 300 bottles in 50 boxes of 6 bottles each. At Viişoara, the fermentation of white and red wines is done in 7 types of barrels kept in a room with controlled atmosphere. Each one of these 7 types differs depending on the origin of the oak from which it is made (French, European, American, Romanian oak etc.) as well as the preparation of the wood that it is made of. The secret of the Viişoara barrel is the way the oak wood is fried, by hot air convection as opposed to direct flame. That is why the same wine type, held into 7 different types of barrels, ends up having different qualities and satisfying different tastes.

“We have a room where the connoisseurs can come and taste from each of the barrels with the purchase being at the will of each buyer. Thus, the buyer purchases one barrel, we bottle it as they wish, in containers with seal or in bottles. We keep the barrel in our controlled air winery and whenever they request it, we will deliver it at any hour of the day or night on Romanian territory.

The Mansion – an imposing building located in a beautiful green area.

There is also a small museum here where you can find out interesting things about Viişoara, the story of its wine and of the birth of the Winery. Those who are not in a hurry can take a long walk throughout the entire centre. They can also reach the Mansion, an imposing building located in a beautiful green area.

Here you can relax by admiring the variety of animals found in the small park such as Vietnamese pigs, horses, ponies, deer, swans and many other birds such as ducks and geese. The beautifully groomed garden is the guarantee of a peaceful day spent with family in the most beautiful Winery…