Cotnari

Appellation

Cotnari is an appellation in Romania across 9 communes.

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Key facts

Type: DOC (PDO)
Category: Quality Aromatic Sparkling Wine/Quality Sparkling Wine/Wine
Protected since: 2007-05-10
Area: 59,508 ha outline of listed communes
Extent N–S × E–W: 33.94 × 30.21 km
Centre: 47.3966° N, 26.9390° E
Grapes: Busuioacă De Bohotin, Chardonnay, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagrăn, Frâncuşă, Grasă De Cotnari, Muscat Ottonel, Pinot Gris, Sauvignon, Traminer Roz, Tămâioasă Românească
Max yield: 105 hl/ha
Min planting density: 3,330 vines/ha
Irrigation: Allowed

Where it is

Nearest town: 5 km south-east of Hârlău
Nearest city: 23 km north-east of Paşcani 45,000 people
To the sea: 293 km
Rivers nearby: Siret (19 km)
Same latitude: Rocky Reach (United States), Vin du Québec (Canada)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: 76–567 m
Mean elevation: 231 m

Measured over the whole outline on 56,137 elevation cells of about 104 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Communes · 9

Bals
Ceplenita
Cotnari
Cucuteni
Deleni
Frumusica
Harlau
Scobinti
Todiresti

Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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