Balassa Duck Furmint Tokaj 2024 Rhône ultra-fine tannins

ultra-fine tannins

The climat sits directly over the hill from Le Montrachet

A bowl of strawberries with cracked black pepper and nothing sweet added

Cold air drains off that plateau after sundown

with firm but refined tannins and a long

Balassa Duck Furmint Tokaj 2024 Rhône ultra-fine tanninsThe Land Tokaj is famous for Asz, the botrytized sweet wine that European courts spent three centuries fighting over, and that reputation obscures what the region mostly makes now: dry Furmint. The geology is the same either way. These are the Zempln hills in northeastern Hungary, the eroded remains of a volcanic range, with rhyolite, andesite, and volcanic tuff under a layer of wind blown loess. What makes Tokaj unique is the confluence of the Bodrog