Royal Tokaji Vineyard Selection Dry Furmint 2018
Concentrated wine with a firm but floral aroma, hints of apple and gooseberry leading into an intense, structured, medium-bodied style showing minerality, spice, and a long fresh finish. Summer was hot with temperatures often above 35℃, again accelerating maturation and the grapes ripened and were ready for picking earlier than ever before in the written history of Tokaji. An outstanding vintage with nice balance in the dries and unbelievable richness in the sweets. We started the grape harvest for the dry wines in August, an extraordinary three weeks earlier than the previous record, and we picked the last Furmint grapes for dry styles at the beginning of September, a date usually considered early for the start of the harvest for dry wines, let alone the finish.
100% Furmint whole bunches were pressed and fermented in Zemplén oak barrels. After fermentation we matured the wine for nine months in 300 litre and 500 litre barrels. The final blend has a proportion of 20% new oak. Produced from grapes carefully selected from the finest classed growth vineyards in the village of Mád.
92 Wine & Spirits
Though not at all sweet, this feels rich, all the edges filled out with savory notes of pear, spice and the earthy notes characteristic of wines from this volcanic landscape. Selected from the estate’s first-growth vineyards and vinified in large Hungarian oak barrels, it’s elegant furmint, deserving of a swirl in a decanter before serving with a pork roast.
Original: $28.99
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$8.70
Description
Concentrated wine with a firm but floral aroma, hints of apple and gooseberry leading into an intense, structured, medium-bodied style showing minerality, spice, and a long fresh finish. Summer was hot with temperatures often above 35℃, again accelerating maturation and the grapes ripened and were ready for picking earlier than ever before in the written history of Tokaji. An outstanding vintage with nice balance in the dries and unbelievable richness in the sweets. We started the grape harvest for the dry wines in August, an extraordinary three weeks earlier than the previous record, and we picked the last Furmint grapes for dry styles at the beginning of September, a date usually considered early for the start of the harvest for dry wines, let alone the finish.
100% Furmint whole bunches were pressed and fermented in Zemplén oak barrels. After fermentation we matured the wine for nine months in 300 litre and 500 litre barrels. The final blend has a proportion of 20% new oak. Produced from grapes carefully selected from the finest classed growth vineyards in the village of Mád.
92 Wine & Spirits
Though not at all sweet, this feels rich, all the edges filled out with savory notes of pear, spice and the earthy notes characteristic of wines from this volcanic landscape. Selected from the estate’s first-growth vineyards and vinified in large Hungarian oak barrels, it’s elegant furmint, deserving of a swirl in a decanter before serving with a pork roast.
