Bohotin

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Relief in three tiers: up to 30 m, 50–100 m, and below 200 m altitude, within the watershed of the Moșna stream.
• Stratified geology: Bessarabian deposits of clays, calcareous sandstones, and sands, overlaid by loess 3–4 m thick.
• Dominant soils: mollisols/cambic cernoziomuri (30–35%); the plateau features loessic parent material, while the central-northern zone has calcareous sandstones.
• Excessively continental climate, influenced by air circulation toward the open valley of the Prut; harsh winters down to −26.8 °C.
• Sunshine totalling 2,137 hours/year (1,348 hours during the growing season); mean precipitation 517.8 mm/year, peaking in summer (June–July).

• Busuioacă de Bohotin is the variety specific to the appellation area, from which the denumire de origine takes its name.
• In years with long, warm autumns, Busuioacă de Bohotin can produce rosé wines with residual sugar, in a naturally sweet style.

• Busuioacă de Bohotin can yield naturally sweet, luscious rosé wines with aromas of rose, basil, and frankincense.
• Red wines from the area accumulate anthocyanins in significant quantities; phenolic maturity is reached approximately two weeks after technological maturity.

• The excessively continental climate and summer drought favour anthocyanin accumulation in red varieties, resulting in deeply coloured, tannic wines.

Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the source.

Sources

• Specification (EUR-Lex, single document)
• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-RO-A0138
• Official trade body site — Oficiul Național al Viei și Produselor Vitivinicole (ONVPV) — DOC Bohotin