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A Romanian romance – tasting notes

Hugh Johnson with Alina-Maria and Nicholas de Roumanie at the Travellers Club, London

In my new year's resolutions, I said I would try to taste more eastern European wines, so I made a beeline for a tasting devoted to Romanian wines, not long before such gatherings were banned. See also this overview.

At the end of January I received this email from someone called Alina-Maria de Roumanie:

My husband, Nicholas of Romania, and I are ambassadors of RoWine, the International Wine Festival of Romania and with this came the opportunity to discover the amazing world of wine and to especially slowly understand our national wines, the Romanian sortiments.

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