Romanian wine

wine making in Romania

thumb|240px|The 1750s Paharnic Constantin Obedeanu of Craiova. From an 1860 copy by [[Constantin Lecca, who was himself a Paharnic]] The Paharnic (plural: Paharnici; also known as Păharnic, Paharnec, or Păharnec; Moldavian dialect: ceașnic, , pakharnikos, , paharnik) was a historical Romanian rank, one of the non-hereditary positions ascribed to the boyar aristocracy in Moldavia and Wallachia (the Danubian Principalities). It was the local equivalent of a cup-bearer or cześnik, originally centered on pouring and obtaining wine for the court of Moldavian and Wallachian Princes. With time, it be