This is a platform through which the two entrepreneurs offer winery tours and wine tasting sessions.
There were about 220 active companies in the winemaking business in Romania at the end of last year, whose revenue stood at 660.5 million lei (EUR148 million), according to the Finance Ministry. Only half of them are visible on the market, because they make and sell their wines in Romania.
“There are about 120 visible wineries in Romania, while in Bulgaria, for instance, there are twice as many, despite it being a smaller country,” says Alexandra Hash.
“We took into account those companies that are active and sell their wines in the stores and restaurants in Romania for our visibility statistics. There are some wineries which only export their products so their wines are not available on the Romanian market and we did not include them.
Such wineries have no interest in being visible in Romania, she added. The winegrowing market in this country is still underdeveloped so investors continue to come and invest in it.
“Investors usually go for the center and south of the country, such as Moldavia, Oltenia and Muntenia,” Alexandra Hash says. There are wineries in other parts of the country, Transylvania, Dobruja and Banat, though not as many.
Revino.ro data shows 25 visible wineries in Muntenia, 22 in Moldavia and 20 in Oltenia. Banat has only five and Dobruja 13.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)