In order to get exceptional results in the art of making wine, it takes about 20 years, said Dan Balaban, the manager of "Davino", who said, in an interview, that "good and solid markets aren't built over night, but over several years".
"Davino" is a company which makes exclusivist wines, which debuted as a wine distributor in 1992, and in 1999, it became the largest in Romania, the owner recounted.
In an interview he graciously granted us one year ago, Dan Balaban said: "We used to distribute over 10% of the wine being manufactured in Romania, and it was that year that we also made the decision to begin making wine. We abandoned distribution, and currently, we only make and distribute our own wine and we are working only on the premium segment. Everything comes from only one vineyard, and the entire output is distributed in the HoReCa system. The selection of the grapes is done manually. We make the selection out in the vineyard, we have been working with the same harvesters for years. The grapes which aren't good enough to be used for making our high quality wine, are sold. In the cellar, we have removed the belt which the grapes were carried on and we have implemented a stationary table instead, starting in 2005, so that there is less than a 0.01% chance of something that isn't good enough slipping through, because the raw material is the factor which determines the quality of the product. We have clones for high quality production, not just for quantity, we don't make more than 5,000 kg of grapes per hectare. The selection is made by six girls, which are permanent employees of the wine cellar, who are paid according to the number of kilograms of grapes they take out for not being good enough. We use the latest in oenological technology, yeasts, enzymes, latest generation substances. We use four types of wood. We did hundreds of tests with hundreds of
