Bohotin

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The relief consists of sculptural interfluves, gently convex, with elongated slopes and average gradients of 10–15%, structured across three altitude steps.
• The geological deposits include clays, calcareous sandstones, and sands of Bessarabian age, overlain by thick loessic deposits of 3–4 m.
• The upper part of the relief, at altitudes above 200 m, is composed of sandy clays and sands interbedded with sandstone concretions of Khersonian origin.
• The climate is of excessively continental type, with harsh winters and dry summers, influenced by air circulation toward the open valley of the Prut, with absolute minimum temperatures down to −26.8 °C.
• The predominant soils are cambic Mollisols/chernozems, accounting for 30–35%, followed by argillic soils in the higher zones, at altitudes of 250–300 m.
• The hydrographic network is sparsely represented by the Moșnișoara stream in the eastern part of the territory and smaller adjacent streams draining the right-hand portion of the territory.

• Busuioacă de Bohotin is the variety specific to this area, having taken its name from the commune of Bohotin.

• For red grape varieties grown in this area, phenolic ripeness is generally completed about two weeks after technological maturity.
• The still wines produced in this area are generally light-bodied, with the whites showing higher acidity and limited extraction, yet remaining true to the character of the varieties from which they are made.
• Busuioacă de Bohotin can yield, in certain years with long, warm autumns, naturally sweet rosé wines that are luscious, amber in colour, with aromas of rose petals, basil, and incense.
• Quality sparkling wines have a white-green or yellow-green colour for white wines, ranging to pale pink with a light ruby hue for rosé or red wines, with abundant mousse and fine, persistent bubbles throughout the length of the glass.
• Quality aromatic-style sparkling wines have a straw-yellow colour with yellow-green hues for Tămâioasă Românească and Muscat Ottonel, or a pink colour with violet hues for Busuioacă de Bohotin and Traminer roz.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

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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