TERROIR PROFILE

Zeletin

Zeletin – Continental

Between Bacău and Vrancea around Podu Turcului, Dealu Morii and Gohor: extensive hillside vineyards in the Zeletin valley.

WarmthSunDrynessMineralityBodyFreshness

TERROIR PROFILE · Moldavian Hills

Zeletin Zeletin – Continental

Between Bacău and Vrancea around Podu Turcului, Dealu Morii and Gohor: extensive hillside vineyards in the Zeletin valley.

Cool continentalSlope: moderateFetească AlbăFetească RegalăAligotéBăbească Neagră
What is terroir?

SOILS

Loessround, fruity, full

Loess stores water and nutrients. Wines tend to be rounder, juicier and fuller.

Loambody-rich, velvety

Loamy soils give wines volume and a soft, velvety mouthfeel.

Sandstonewarm, dry, spicy

Sandstone warms quickly and yields ripe, fragrant wines with yellow fruit and fine spice.

CLIMATE · Cool continental

Continental

TOPOGRAPHY · moderate

Between Bacău and Vrancea around Podu Turcului, Dealu Morii and Gohor.

WHAT IT MEANS IN THE GLASS

ripearomaticindigenousregional character

Similar terroirs worldwide

Computed from fingerprint similarity

Iași

Moldavian Hills

100% similar

  • Zeletin and Iași share a strikingly similar fingerprint — the differences lie in soil and grape varieties.

Huși

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100% similar

  • Zeletin and Huși share a strikingly similar fingerprint — the differences lie in soil and grape varieties.

Colinele Tutovei

Moldavian Hills

100% similar

  • Zeletin and Colinele Tutovei share a strikingly similar fingerprint — the differences lie in soil and grape varieties.

This terroir's soils in the glossary