BALASSA Kakas Furmint 2023 - Bortársaság
BALASSAKakas Furmint 2023
Unit price: HUF 13 200 / litre. Our prices are gross prices.
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Stock information
The Kakas vineyard is located on the edge of the Mád Basin and the 2023 Kakas Furmint comes from its highest parcel. In terms of soil composition, it has an 80 cm layer of silty rhyolite tuff. According to István, it has such unique characteristics that it can be compared only to Burgundy. It's no coincidence that he sometimes refers to it as ‘Petit Chablis’. The wine's character certainly lives up to this comparison. The grapes are well-ripened, vinified gently, fermented in barrels and aged for 6 months in 300-litre Zemplén oak barrels. It offers a creamy mouthfeel, with a subtly salty, mineral finish. It feels as though you’re sipping a Chablis.
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Balassa István
„Five hectares is the limit for me. That’s the upper ceiling of quantity and quality that one can control. For me, that point comes at five hectares. The character of a vineyard shows itself the most if we wander around it incessantly; if we live together with the parcel and nature. We experience, learn and improve year after year. Something that worked in 2010 had to be redefined in 2011. In such a dominant and warm year, the differences between the vineyards appear more slowly. I work exclusively with second-fill barrels; the first fill never makes it into the bottle. It would suppress the character of the vineyards.”