BALASSA Szent Tamás Furmint 2023 - Bortársaság
BALASSASzent Tamás Furmint 2023
Unit price: HUF 19 867 / litre. Our prices are gross prices.
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The Szent Tamás vineyard is like a geological rainbow: red clay, rhyolite tuff, pumice stone and even fossilized tree trunks. It’s hard not to take such a foundation seriously, but with István Balassa it’s never a sterile geography lesson, but rather a vivid demonstration of what ‘place’ truly means in a wine. The Furmint was spontaneously fermented in 300-litre barrels and aged for eight months before being bottled. Both on the nose and palate, it opens up slowly. Saline, taut and long, with a gentle warmth from the barrel in the background.
- Hungary
- Tokaj - Hegyalja
- Balassa István
- furmint
- dry
- White
- 2023
- 0.75 l
- 12.5 alk
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„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.”