Eastern Europe/Balkans

Searing mineral and subtle yellow plum fruit build in dense layers, thanks to 100–200-year-old vines (!). Rather than being trained to a system, these hoary vines sprawl freely on the ground, seemingly indestructible after having been exposed to extreme w

The key to Lenkey’s aging regime is early harvesting to preserve acidity. 10 years later, this wine is fully integrated and absolutely singing. A deeply flinty mineral is contrasted with stone fruit skin and a surprisingly balanced acidity.

Jaroslav moonlights as a wine school teacher in the local town, so his commitment to natural practices is being proliferated throughout his community as we speak. His wines are pure honest, reflecting a commitment to biodiversity in the vineyard.

A truly inimitable white wine. Think Greek Retsina but without the pine resin tones. There’s richness and depth, wonderful acidity…it’s a wild ride. The grapes grow on volcanic soil in the single vineyard of Sadowie, and only 845 bottles are produced per

Delicately mineral, with salty tang, ripe pear, and tart crabapples. Csopak is a tiny little village straddling the lake, but it has a long winemaking tradition, and Tamás Kovács, the winemaker at Szent Donat, is carrying on his family’s long tradition of

Two days on the skins give this wine texture, but it definitely drinks like a white, not an orange. Very special stuff from a mysterious winemaker in the Czech Republic making serious, contemplative wines.

Egri Csillag (Eger Star) is the name of white wine field blends from this region of northeastern Hungary. Much like their more famous red wine cousins, Egri Bikavér (Bull’s Blood), they incorporate both indigenous and international varieties. Fresh, crisp

Chiseled minerality and a hint of smoke characteristic of Welschriesling. The acidity is singing. The Kovács family runs this winery and have a long history of winemaking, owning some of the best vineyards in their tiny village of Csopak just north of Lak

Dluhe Grefty 'Alba Rosales' 2020

The intent at Kabaj is purity; so much so that they believe you should be able to take a glass of a wine out in it’s respective vineyard and find the same flavors in the grape as in the wine. Herbs, white florals, tightly wound minerality, with a hint of

Péter Benedek is a third generation winemaker, who works his 50 year old vines on volcanic soils. Hárslevelü is an indigenous, Hungarian white that is zesty and fresh with subtle notes of honeyed pear and apricot meeting tangerine with a beautiful, herbal