Barta
2023 Furmint Öreg Király Dűlő
- Producer
- Barta
- Appellation
- Tokaj, Hungary
- Vintage
- 2023
- Composition
- 100% Furmint
- Climate
- Cool Continental
- Soils
- Volcanic rhyolite tufa with some zeolite and red clay.
- Exposure
- South-Southwest
- Maceration & aging
- Fermented in 500L Hungarian oak barrels then aged on the lees for 4 months.
- Alcohol
- 12.8%
- Residual sugar
- 5.9 g/l
- Acidity
- 5.9 g/l
Notes & Pairings
This vintage is immediately Tokaj in terms of ripe acidity, but not followed by any heat, bitterness, or any perceivable residual sugar (although it absolutely needs and has some for balance). Fermented in 500L Hungarian oak, it then spends 4 months on the lees and is only racked by gravity. Ready to drink now, we can’t wait to see where this goes in 3-5 more years in bottle. The honey, smoke and salt derived from the terraced Öreg Király Dűlő are just their infancy.