Фетяска Регале

The name appears at Mediaș around 1920, after the clonal selections made by Michael Ambrosi jun. at Gräfenberg from Mädchentraube (Fetească), Königsast and Italian Riesling; the family brochure says that he was the variety's «godfather». The «Ambrosi, Fischer & Co.» catalogue of 1936–37 lists it as no. 24 with the phrase «the preferred variety for extraordinarily abundant production», ripening in period III–IV and giving a «very good table wine». Today it is the most widely planted variety in Romania, at roughly 12,661 ha. We know of no wine from that period that has survived: the note concerns a name and a document, not a bottle.