Radacini

Radacini Wines was founded in 2011 in Moldova and is one of the country's largest producers, with around 1,000 hectares of estate vineyards spread across the three Moldovan PGI regions: Codru, Ștefan Vodă, and Valul lui Traian. Wine production is centralised at a modern facility in Cricova that came online in 2019, with a roughly 7.5 million litre annual capacity for still and sparkling combined.

The portfolio runs across both international varieties and Moldovan natives - Viorica, Fetească Albă, Fetească Neagră, and Rară Neagră all feature alongside Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot. Sparkling wine is a meaningful part of the house: roughly 350,000 bottles a year are made via the traditional method, with another ~850,000 produced via Charmat. The sparkling range is layered: a standard Méthode Traditionnelle line at the entry, the Métier premium series above it, and at the top the limited-edition Reserve Brut - a small-batch release priced well above Métier, the producer's framing for the top of the catalogue.

Compared to Moldova's smaller artisanal producers, Radacini sits at the industrial-quality end of the local scene - large, technically capable, and increasingly export-focused. The strongest bottlings are the traditional-method sparklings made from the classic Champagne triad, where extended lees ageing in modern equipment produces wines that compete cleanly on price-to-quality with mainstream entry-level Champagne.