Products tagged with Furmint

No question: Hungary makes some great wine. And then one comes around, and wow. Well, here’s one of those. Very clean – like fresh spring water, with white flowers and orchard fruit (slightly under-ripe pear), yet with an energy and length surprising for

Slightly waxy, with bright herbal aromas, and a focus on orchard fruit and melon. Volcanic soil imparts an intense minerality. This wine is a bit of an outlier for Lenkey; done in stainless steel rather than oak and aged for ”only” 3 years. I guess he wen

Szamorodni is a unique category of Tokaj in which botrytized grapes are pressed & aged under a natural layer of yeast, causing oxidization similar to sherry. This batch was a happy accident originally marked “throw away” by Samuel. Fully dry, with perfume

The puttonyos system for Tokaji Aszú essentially denotes the sugar level in the wine; in this case, a whopping 168 g/L. Opulent nutty texture, characteristic apricot skin, pepper notes, and acidity that’s still singing. The finish is profound and complex.

Lenkey’s first fully independent vintage as a winemaker was ‘08, but it was a difficult one. He managed to pull together enough healthy grapes to craft just 3,000 bottles of this inimitable wine. Full-on lavender and apricot skin on the nose, with muddled