You will love Romania, we certainly do!
What a beautiful and historically interesting country! Our wine tours Romania include visits to two wine regions from your base in Bucharest. You also have the option of visiting the Transylvania wine region from the lovely town of Brasov (and see the brown bears of course).
- Start enjoying Romanian wine with a tasting in a Bucharest wine bar
- Visit Dealu Mare and Dragasani wine regions Bucharest
- Overnight at a lovely Vinalia winery hotel in Dealu Mare
- Visit Dracula´s Castle in Bran, plus Peles Castle and Bear watching!
- Spend a day in Brasov, wandering, eating and drinking
- Romania wine tours form part of our Eastern Europe wine triangle
We highly recommend spending a couple of nights in Brasov (in addition to wine tours) allowing you to not only enjoy this beautiful city, but also the spectacular Peles Castle and the more famous Dracula´s Castle at Bran.
Scary front labels, Count Dracula and spooky castles 
Romanian food is varied and delicious
Day 1 – Arrival in Bucharest
Today we will meet you at the airport and transfer you to your hotel in the center of Bucharest. If you arrive in the morning we can take you on a city tour during the afternoon. You will then be armed with some information on the complicated history of this country. In the evening we will have a tasting led by a wine expert at an atmospheric wine bar in the historic center.
This first tasting will give you an overview of styles and regions in this very large wine-producing country. Romania has hundreds of wineries and today offers wine lovers superb quality. Your hotel will be in the center of the city so you can easily wander around and explore a little. Lodging style and level will depend on your personal preference so please talk to us about that.
Day 2 – Dealu Mare wine region
Dealu Mare has the greatest concentration of wineries you will find on Romania wine tours. A visit here could last several days if you were to investigate in-depth. As you will probably only have a day or two we will take you to several notable places found along with the range of hills that act as a spine for this wine region. We will eat at a winery restaurant or at a countryside eatery and get the chance to pair local food with Romania wine.
Romanian wine in Romanian oak at Lacerta 
Peles Castle is a really stunning building
We can have you stay out in the wine region if you wish – there are not a large number of options out here and demand is high, hence we should decide early on where you should stay. Our favorite is Vinalia which also has a boutique winery in a lovely setting. The area looks like Tuscany in many ways, and if the Marchesi Antinori thinks so then it must be true!
Wineries we can mention from personal experience are SERVE for example. While SERVE is an acronym that might, as a brand name, seem a little strange; the wine, winery, and client experience will not disappoint. As you can see in the video of the winery the production facility is a very modern and new wine world style, and the customer service is top-notch. They have restored a lovely house next to the winery to receive visitors and conduct tastings, with both indigenous and international grapes on offer for tasting.
What we really like at SERVE is the visit to the vineyard plots giving you not only close-up contact with the vines but a chance to enjoy lovely views from the top of the hill. The brand ambassador or an agronomist will take us around the vineyards, winery, and lead a tasting.
Lacerta is a great visit on our Romania wine tours, the winery is located in a little slice of heaven. Rolling hills and vines surround the winery and country house, the winery is a delight to visit and the wines are very nice indeed. We will be shown around by the winemaker who will explain the Romania terroir and its results.
The tasting room is found at the top of a spiral staircase winding up from stacks of oak barrels in the climate-controlled cellar, the views over the vineyards form a perfect backdrop as you sip the fruits of Lacertas´ labor. The winery is owned by two Austrians who fell in love with the region and it is easy to see why.
We will show you some of the more rustic wineries along the way to display the contrast between high investment and more traditional styles of production. There are many people who have homemade styles on smallholdings and we will try to visit one of them.
Another of our favorites in the high investment, high-quality bracket is Metamorfosis. This place had a large influx of funding from the Antinori family who were looking for a new site to extend their horizons while continuing the production premium wines with innovations in winemaking.
The Antinori family have been involved in wine since 1385 
Interesting tank decoration for Romanian wine
Everything about this winery screams quality and attention to detail. Humidity sprayers in the cellar, which has barrels laid on stones which can be watered if they require even more humidity on very hot, dry days. They are using new Botti casks that have a computer-controlled oxygenation machine, which you don’t see every day! Ana will be showing us around and she is also an agronomist, so she really knows what she is doing.
Day 3 or 4 – Visit the Dragasani wine region
This could be day 4 of our Romania wine tours if you decided to stay overnight in Dealu Mare. But it is more likely we will visit from Bucharest as it is closer. Dragasani again has a tight concentration of wineries and we can hop between them today. We will enjoy tours, tastings, and further education on Romanian wines with local experts, Somms, winemakers, or agronomists.
We will tailor our visits to your tastes or preferences if you express them, some people want to visit a specific winery as they have drunk wine from certain places back at home – no problem, just let us know in the planning stage and we can arrange it.
You can choose to visit Romania, or indeed any of our wine destinations, in-depth, or combine them into a wider wine triangle if you have time. Give us the parameters of time, regions, and budget for your trip and let us suggest the perfect route.
