Wines made at Corcova are ready to conquer the domestic market, the specialized shops and restaurants network representing their first target, following an investment of three million euros carried out by businessmen from Romania and France.
'We invested in 2006 nearly three million euros from SAPARD, FADR, but also of equity. We took care of the vineyard and we also rebuilt the cellars having once belonged to Prince Anton Bibescu. We filled 70,000 bottles with wine in 2008 and 150,000 bottles in 2009,' said Serban Damboviceanu, who now owns the Corcova Wine Cellars, along with French businessman Michel Roy.
Out of the 70 hectares of vineyards, 40 are already bearing fruit, and another 15 will be planted.
'We will focus not on quantity, but on quality. We are already present in restaurants and specialized shops, but we intend to enter the supermarkets too with our wines - Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay,' Damboviceanu added.
'When I tasted this wine the first time and I heard it was made at Corcova I remember I thought that the wine was good, but that nobody could be that crazy to invest there, after the land had been ignored so many years. It seems that we need such examples, of pioneers to invest money in wine and to make the best wines,' the president of the National Vine and Wine Employers of Romania, Valeriu Cotea said in his turn.
The wines made at Corcova, a locality in the Mehedinti County (south-western Romania), by Prince Anton Bibescu, assisted by a French oenologist, were famous in Paris. The cellars were being frequented back then by several personalities of the time, and the famous blends such as Corcovelul and Corcovinul, were praised by writers such as Martha Bibescu, Michael Sebastian, and Ion Minulescu.
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