Quality Natural Last year, they returned with One Golden Star from world’s most coveted food awards – Great Taste, in London. Vale Putna, the modern premium brand, is a tribute to the first trout farm in Romania, founded in 1896 in one of the cleanest natural areas, like heaven on Earth – Bucovina, the Beech Country as the Germans used to call it. The local delicacy known as Cobza, smoked trout with fir cones and beechwood, dressed in fir-tree branches and tied in hazel twigs, was a special gift delivered in honour of the Crowning of His Majesty King Mihai I, in 1927.