Apátsági
2022 Furmint
- Producer
- Apátsági
- Appellation
- Somló, Hungary
- Vintage
- 2022
- Composition
- 100% Furmint
- Climate
- Cool Continental
- Soils
- Chalk and basalt crumb
- Maceration & aging
- 1 night of maceration, and long elevage in 600-2000L Hungarian
- Alcohol
- 14.4%
- Residual sugar
- 6.5 g/l
- Acidity
- 6.2 g/l
Notes & Pairings
Zoltán picks later than anyone else we work with on the hill. The sweet/salty acidity they are able to keep in balance is astonishing. These are big wines from the hill. Ripeness is pushed almost to late harvest levels, botrytis is welcome, 1 night of maceration, and long elevage in 600-2000L Hungarian oak barrels helps slowly ferment these wines to something special. The 2022 Furmint has red wine structure backed up by Riesling levels of acidity and just enough residual sugar to tie the whole thing up in a neat little bow. Golden from aging and oxygen bonding with the botrytis, there’s the characteristic high acidity from Furmint along with firm skin tannins.