Life Style / Wine Grapes / Feteasca: Has synonym name Fetiaska. Several variant varieties of this cep?ge are grown. The Feteasca Regala variety has the synonym name Kir?lyle?nyka in Hungary. The Feteasca Alba, reportedly an indigenous Romanian variety seemingly most favored in that countries provinces of Moldavia and Transylvania, has several synonym names. It is named Leanyka in Hungary where it is mainly used to produce dry or semi dry white-wines, although the Cotnari region of Romania is famous for semi-sweet and sweet wine versions. The selected variant used to produce red wines is the Feteasca Neagra, reputedly indigenous to Romania and one of the chosen V.vinifera cultivars successfuly planted by Dr. Konstantin Frank for use in the Finger Lakes region of New York. When ripe it shows small/medium deep purple to black-skinned berries in dense clusters usually trained on bi-lateral cordons. It is mainly grown in several areas of central and southern Moldavia and also in Muntenia province. Usually vinified to produce dry or semi-dry deep red wines with a flavor profile described as 'blackcurranty', requiring some short/medium term ageing, although most are drunk young.
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Life Style / Wine Grapes / Leányka: Has several synonym names including Feteasca Alba (in Romania) and M?dchentraube. Popular early ripening pale greyish-yellow skinned variety that grows in small, loosely dense clusters of medium size MORE
Life Style / Wine Grapes / Királyleányka: A variety grown in Hungary reported as derived from a Feteasca Alba x Grasa cross, also has several synonym names including Feteasca Regala where grown in Romania. Ripens later than Feteasca Alba in m MORE