The wines of Horia Ban from Oradea, in the second year of production after he bought a vineyard, were awarded with one gold and two silver medals at the most prestigious wine competition in Europe, Mundus Vini, Summer Tasting 2024, which took place at the end of August, in Neustadt, Germany.
The Gold Medal was awarded to the wine Rupes Nobilis - Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 and the Silver Medal went to the wines Rupes Nobilis - Simply Red Cuvee 2022 and Rupes Nobilis - Pinot Noir Rose 2023. They are three of the four wines produced and sent to the competition.
"It is very important that we managed to get very good scores and medals at the most important wine competition in Europe, where 4,000 wines from 39 countries participated. We are a winery established only two years ago, with young wines, but the prizes won prove, once more, the potential of the Minis area, especially for red wines, and reward our investments made both in the vineyard and in the winery, on the technical side of winemaking, but also in specialists", Horia Ban declared on Thursday for AGERPRES.
He wanted to mention the essential contribution of oenologist consultant Clara Kardos and engineer Robert Heizer, her "right hand".
The entrepreneur from Oradea built, in a record time of three months, in the Minis vineyard a modern boutique winery, the "youngest" among the people in Bihor County passionate about wine culture, which can be visited from October 1 by those interested in wine tourism.
Horia Ban, the administrator of the Termoline company, makes wines out of passion, being one of the founding members of the Millésime Wine Culture and Civilization Association, together with oenologist Dorin Popa, established in 2010.
For many years, he wanted to build his own winery, with a vineyard. True to his own convictions in performance, he started from the beginning with the idea of making quality wines, investing in the area with the best red grapes and in the latest generation technology.
The winery's automated technical equipment is state-of-the-art. The renewable energy system, with geothermal heat pumps, ensures the heating and cooling of both the wine cellar and the stainless steel winemaking or storage tanks, with a capacity of 3,000, 7,500 liters, whose temperature can be individually controlled, depending at the request of the oenologist and the fermentation process, between 0°C and 25°C.
After maturing in oak barrels, at 12-14°C, the wine is bottled in bottles, labeled and kept in the cellar of the winery, where both the newly bottled wines and those that will be part of the winery's treasury are placed on racks.
The new winery can vinify up to 75,000 kg of grapes, currently producing up to 40,000 liters of wine. In 2022, 22,000 bottles of red and rosé wines were produced, recently reaching 40,000 bottles. For the first time, this year, they also produced a white wine, a blend of Feteasca Regala and Traminer.
Next to the modern wine cellar, in another new building there are several rooms and a living room, as well as a place for tasting and stories for visitors who want to stay overnight. And this building has a temperature-controlled environment, being equipped with a heating-air conditioning system in the concrete structure and in the plasterboard ceiling.
Wine tourism enthusiasts will be able to visit, from October, the HB Wine winery, and also other tourist attractions in the area, such as the three medieval fortresses of Soimos, Dezna and Siria or even the Dacian fortress in Covasant. Nearby is also the Savarsin Royal Estate.A
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