Dry Furmint, Tokaj
Claude Kolm's The Fine Wine Review
87 points, A
“Furmint is the main grape for the sweet wines of Tokaj. Here we have it made as a dry wine. The result is a smooth, sleek, firm dry wine with nutty lime blossom aromas and incipient apricot flavors with a nice acidic attack.”
Bloomberg
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“The furmint grape is one of the main ingredients in the country’s renowned and expensive sweet Tokaji Aszu, but bottled on its own, it makes a crisp, appetizing wine with a scent of ripe apples and lemony minerality. …it’s a bargain…”
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“Floral and lasting, this covers octaves of flavor, the middle range filled out with mint and stone fruit. For seared scallops.”