ONVV, Wine of Moldova and Doina Vin

Event · first Saturday and Sunday of October

National Wine Day

Moldova’s largest wine festival. ONVV runs it under the Wine of Moldova brand in the Great National Assembly Square in Chișinău: the country’s wineries have stands there and visitors taste with the Taster’s Notebook (Carnetul degustătorului). On the same days many wineries welcome guests at home, with wine tours.

Doina Vin: a stand in the square at eight editions: 2017, 2018 and 2019, and every year from 2022 to 2026 (no. 5 on the festival map in 2024 and 2026); the cellar in Răzeni open to festival guests in 2025 and 2026. In 2019, at the opening of the 18th edition, the Ministry of Agriculture gave the winery the award for the Codru PGI region.

The official National Wine Day site (external site, opens in a new tab)Doina Vin at National Wine Day, year by year

Wine tourism · 2025 edition

Moldova’s enotourism guide

ONVV publishes the country’s enotourism guide, with the “Wine Route” map, the regions, the grape varieties and the wineries that welcome visitors. The 2025 edition, in Romanian and English, lists 36 wineries with tours, each on its own page.

Doina Vin: the winery has its own page in the 2025 edition (p. 48): a tour of the 1875 cellar and the production hall, and a tasting in the winery’s tasting room.

The 2025 enotourism guide (PDF, wineofmoldova.com) (external site, opens in a new tab)Winery visits

Protected geographical indications

Codru PGI and the other PGI regions

Moldova has four regions with a protected geographical indication (PGI): Codru, Ștefan Vodă and Valul lui Traian for wine, and Divin for wine distillate. Each is run by a producers’ association; all four are protected in the Republic of Moldova and, since 18 October 2016, in the European Union. ONVV manages the production of PGI and PDO wines.

Doina Vin: the winery’s vineyards lie in the Codru PGI area, and since 25 January 2012 Doina Vin has been a member of the Codru PGI producers’ association. The Codru PGI mention appears on some wines of the Artitude, Perla Neagră and Goliard houses.

The Codru PGI region on wineofmoldova.com (external site, opens in a new tab)The winery in Răzeni and the Codru hills

Promotion abroad · Wine of Moldova

The national stand at wine fairs

ONVV takes Moldovan wineries to the big wine fairs under the country brand, on a shared stand: ProWein in Düsseldorf, Wine Paris (26 winemakers in 2026) and other fairs and tastings abroad.

Doina Vin: ONVV supported the winery’s participation in Blue of the Danube in London (2022), Wine Prague (2023) and the “Republica Moldova Prezintă” exhibition (2023). In 2025 the winery is listed at the World Bulk Wine Exhibition in Amsterdam as a co-exhibitor of ONVV.

Wine of Moldova at Wine Paris 2026 (ONVV news, in Romanian) (external site, opens in a new tab)For importers and distributors

Competitions and medals

The national contest and the “Golden Wines”

ONVV runs the national “Vinul Moldovei” (Wine of Moldova) contest and follows Moldovan wines’ medals abroad. After 2018, with 488 medals at international competitions, it published its first catalogue of gold-medal wines: 108 wines, grouped by PGI region.

Doina Vin: the catalogue “Vinurile de Aur ale Republicii Moldova 2018” lists three of the winery’s Artitude wines under Codru PGI: Rosé de Merlot 2017, Merlot 2015 and Rosé de Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 (pp. 38–41).

Competitions on wineofmoldova.com (external site, opens in a new tab)Doina Vin’s wine awards

Support for the sector

The Vine and Wine Register and the Vine and Wine Fund

By law, ONVV keeps the Vine and Wine Register of the Republic of Moldova, with the country’s vineyards and wineries, on the rvv.gov.md portal. Its work is financed from the Vine and Wine Fund, made up of the sector’s contributions and allocations from the state budget.

The Vine and Wine Register (rvv.gov.md) (external site, opens in a new tab)