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Agriculture: New species of vine at Pietroasele
A new species of Romanian vine, Alb Aromat de Pietroasa, will start being processed this autumn at the vine-making and growing station at Pietroasele, Buzau County (eastern Romania).
'This species is obtained from the Romanian Tamaioasa, it is practically an uncontrolled fertilization of the Romanian Tamaioasa species, it was homologated as a distinct species. What we are trying to do now is to set it working outside the plot of land where it is grown,' Dragos Matei, chief engineer of the vine-growing and making station at Pietroasele, told Agerpres.
According to the above-mentioned source, 'the average production is 10-11 tonnes per hectare. This species resembles Feteasca regala, moreover it has the quality of being semi-flavoured.' The expert working with the Pietroasele station says that the new species was selected in order to supplement the range of Romanian flavoured wines, which won many medals in Romanian competitions and abroad.
'After Tamaioasa romaneasca, 1986 vintage, won a gold medal at Muscat du monde in France, in 2009, the competition that brings together all the world's flavoured wines, the only medal won by a Romanian flavoured wine, we need a new species that should assert itself at national and international level. The Romanian species of vine that are grown at Pietroasele won seven medals in the competition in Focsani [eastern Romania] in 2012, of which the great gold medal went to Tamaioasa romaneasca 2003, gold medals to Feteasca neagra 2011, Grasa 2003 and Merlot 2011, and in the international competition that was held in Bucharest in 2013, Tamaioasa romaneasca 2013 got the gold medal and Grasa 2003 and Tamaioasa romaneasca 1990, the silver medals and a Cabernet Sauvignon 2012 won a gold medal, which was a surprise for us,' also said the source mentioned before.