Other World Wine and the Hunt for Jumi-Juma

The journey to rediscovering a country’s national obsession and making a wine in the most unexpected of places

Words - Nicolas Payne-Baader

Images - Jack Blumsom

Arriving in Moldova’s capital city of Chișinău on a January evening is not for the faint hearted. Wispy snow blows down the dark corridors of huge Soviet Blocks. A city that often seems quiet is almost silent. Chișinău is Europe’s least visited capital city, and it’s located in Europe’s least visited coun…