Romania

Romania, sometimes spelt Roumania or Rumania is eastern Europe’s quantitatively most important wine producer The quality of its wines has improved considerably in recent years. In 2012, there were 183,170 ha/452,623 acres of vineyard planted to wine grapes, of which just over 97,500 ha/240,928 acres were Vitis vinifera according to data from Romania’s National Office for Vine and Wine Products. In 2013 the harvest reached 5.9 million hl/156 million gal, partly thanks to around 30,000 ha of productive new vineyards planted since 2007 coming onstream.