Graduated WSET Diploma and he is WSET Certified Educator at Borkollégium. He is the president of the internation wine contest Winelovers 100, wine consultant, expert of Borigó publication and wine writer.

CEO Wine In Business and cofounder of East Cellars.

Marketing Director at Cramele Cotnari, passionate about wines and their stories and a great admirer of Romanian varieties that I believe can give birth to premium wines. With 20 years of experience in communication, I always wanted to be able to influence the course of some Romanian brands, and meeting the wines of Cotnari is one of the best chances for this goal.

I believe that it is possible to do things this way. To act in the spirit of shared values, to cooperate over the boundaries of wine regions and last but not least to work in the company of great people. Together.”
Péter Vida has returned home to Szekszárd over 10 years ago, joining the family wine estate and investing all his previously gathered marketing savvy into creating a remarkable winery. He will be presenting 8 exciting wines from the FWA member wineries.

Fine Wines Association of Hungary
The FWA was established with the goal of educating wine lovers, wine professionals and visiting tourists about the merits of Central and Eastern European wines and in particular Hungarian wines. Hungary is a country with a remarkable history in viticulture and wine production but when it comes to international markets it is still only an up-and-coming player. The rich diversity of local varieties and terroirs has not been explored by the rest of the world yet. Representing five different wine regions the members of FWA are influential and important wineries. Together they provide a diverse, comprehensive and easy to grasp cross-section of quality wine production in Hungary. Their shared values are based on being small or medium sized estates, their family centered attitude, their respect for local traditions of viticulture and winemaking, in harmony with a relentless spirit of innovation.

After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in International Economics and Management at Bocconi University in Milan, she spent a year at a multicultural agricultural company, where her main duty was to research the impacts of climate change on the viticulture of the European Union. Then she went on to get another degree: MSc in Viticulture and Enology at Montpellier SupAgro, Université de Bordeaux and Hochschule Geisenheim universities. Meanwhile one WSET exam followed the other from Level 1 to the diploma course. Simultaneously she manages the family winery, controlling everyday tasks, making decisions and organizing different events.

Dan Balaban began his wine career by setting up a distribution company right after the fall of the communist regime.
In 1997, after starting the production of wine with purchased grapes, increasing not only the Davino Winery cultivated area to 100 ha (from 87 ha in 1999) but also the quality standard.
Believes in the wine potential of Romania, of the Dealu Mare region and the local varieties both in individual form as well as blended with international varieties

The second generation of enologists, with independent activity in Dealu Mare, Ceptura, current collaborator of the S.E.R.V.E. winery. with whose support he studied viticulture and oenology in Montpellier.

He studied viticulture in Italy and in 1998 he decided to come to Romania at the insistence of a friend for an investment in the wine sector.
In September 1998 he left Italy with a one-year contract with Vinarte and we can still find him here.
Fiorenzo was delighted from the first moment by the vineyards in Romania and fell in love with Dealu Mare, where is an ideal terroir for vinegrowing. He is one of the oenologists who made a decisive contribution to changing the face of Romanian wine in the last 20 years, signing some of the most successful labels on the market.
In 2008, he became associated with the famous Antinori family, and the Viile Metamorfosis company began to develop.
He loves local varieties, especially Negrul de Drăgășani, a variety that Fiorenzo believed in, realized that it has great potential, brought it from the Drăgășani area and planted it in his own vineyards in 2005.

Dr. Géza BALLA has graduated as a horticulturist at the Viticulture Department of the University of Horticulture of Cluj Napoca in 1984.
He started to work as a horticulturist-trainee in the State Winery of Baracka, and step by step he became head winemaker, and later the CEO of the company.
In 1999 he founded his own winery, Wine Princess SRL. In 2004 he earned his Ph.D in viticulture at the University of Timisoara.
Since 2008 he has been the leading lecturer of the Viticulture and Winemaking Subdepartment at the Sapientia University Targu-Mures. He is the author of numerous academic textbooks and articles. He has also been a member of the Hungarian Wine Academy since 2004 and in 2018 he won in Hungary the Winemaker of the year title.

Born in the vineyards, certified sommelier and wine expert at the CIA in California, worked in France for 7 years in Michelin stared restaurants and now back to the roots in Recaș, representing the 2nd generation.