2017 Dealul Mare DOC Feteasca Neagra Dry "Cantus Primus", Muntenia, Romania

With 6,000 years of wine history, Romania is one of the oldest and most traditional wine growing countries in Europe. The Greek poet Homer already mentioned Thracian wines in his Iliad in the 8th century and the historian Herodotus (482-425 BC) tells of the wine trade of the Greek colonists on the Black Sea coast. German settlers from the Rhine Moselle region followed the call of the Hungarian King Géza II. (1130-1162), the then ruler of this area, and revived viticulture in Transylvania in the 12th century and in the 18th century these were the Swabians brought into the country by the Habsburg ruler Maria Theresa (1717-1780)....

The red grape variety originates from the Moldova/Romania border region. Synonyms grouped alphabetically by country are Coada Răndunicii, Coada Rindunicei, Coada Rindunicii, Coada Rindunicu, Păsărească, Păsărească Neagră, Poamă Fetei Neagră(Moldova); Coada Răndunicii, Coada Rindunicu, Black Girl Grape(Romania); Feteasca Chernaya, Pasaryanska Chernaya(Russia); Fetyaska Chernaya(Ukraine); Fetyaska Black. The probably very old variety has probably spread from the historical region of Moldavia to Transylvania and Hungary. According to DNA analyses there are kinship relations between the three varieties Fetească Neagră...