Largest champagne / sparkling wine fight: world record in Iasi, Romania

November 10, 2025

IASI, Romania--To promote the sparkling wines line of products, the Cotnari winery organized a sparkling wine fight attended by 135 students from the university center Iasi, Romania, thus setting the world record for the Largest champagne / sparkling wine fight, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

"The event took place in Iasi at the Students' House of Culture, where the participants thoroughly enjoyed the rehearsals prepared by Cotnari. The big battle took place between the two new varieties of sparkling wine from the Zaz range and Selections from Cotnari Vineyard.

"Andy Felix Jităreanu, Cotnari marketing representative: "It is a very important event for us because we want to launch today two sparkling wines from the Selection range, namely Frâncușă, white sparkling wine, and Fetească Neagră, pink sparkling wine."

"COTNARI received the title of the most appreciated Romanian wine brand, according to a NIELSEN data from the retail audit service carried out for the “Quiet wine” category.

"Cotnari wines have exceptional qualities obtained by limiting average grape production to one hectare to just 70-80% compared to other vineyards in Romania or in wine-growing countries."

"Our company will always choose quality at the expense of quantity. In our wine-house, organized on scientific criteria, we keep the most successful collections since 1956," says the Cotnari Winery."

"Cotnari SA is a Romanian wine-producing company. Its history begins in 1948 when the State Agricultural Enterprise (IAS) Cotnari was founded from the merger of the State Agricultural Farm (GAS) Cotnari, a producer of grapes and wine, with GAS Deleni, which had fruit tree plantations and was engaged in sheep breeding.

"Based on Government Decision no. 266/1991, IAS Cotnari was privatized and Cotnari SA was founded. In 2000, Cotnari was left with only grape production, winemaking and wine marketing. In 1948, the company owned an area of 2,000 ha. Today, the company owns 900 ha and leases 800 ha.

"The producer's portfolio includes the following wine ranges: Anotimpurile Cotnari, Clasic, Cotnari, Etichetă galbenă, Selecții, Vin de spirit and Vinoteca. The plantation consists of the varieties Grasă de Cotnari (510 ha), Tămâioasă românească (460 ha), Fetească albă (220 ha) and Frâncușă (210 ha).(Wikipedia)

"Iași, is the third largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County. Located in the historical region of Moldavia, it has traditionally been one of the leading centers of Romanian social, cultural, academic and artistic life. The city was the capital of the Principality of Moldavia from 1564 to 1859, then of the United Principalities from 1859 to 1862, and the capital of Romania from 1916 to 1918.

"Known as the Cultural Capital of Romania, Iași is a symbol of Romanian history. Historian Nicolae Iorga stated that "there should be no Romanian who does not know of it". Still referred to as "The Moldavian Capital", Iași is the main economic and business centre of Romania's Moldavian region. In December 2018, Iași was officially declared the Historical Capital of Romania.

" Home to the oldest Romanian university and to the first engineering school, Iași is the third most important education and research centre of the country, accommodating over 60,000 students in five public universities." (Wikipedia)

"Sparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it, making it fizzy. While it is common to refer to this as champagne, European Union countries legally reserve that word for products exclusively produced in the Champagne region of France. Sparkling wine is usually either white or rosé, but there are examples of red sparkling wines such as the Italian Brachetto, Bonarda and Lambrusco, and the Australian sparkling Shiraz. The sweetness of sparkling wine can range from very dry brut styles to sweeter doux varieties (French for 'hard' and 'soft', respectively)

"In European Union countries, the word "champagne" is reserved by law only for sparkling wine from the Champagne region of France. The French terms Mousseux and Crémant refer to sparkling wine not made in the Champagne region, such as Blanquette de Limoux produced in Southern France." (Wikipedia)