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Furmint – Szent Benedek Pincészet

If you ever find yourself in the Tokaj region, Szent Benedek Winery is a must visit. Located in the village of Tallya, the winery is housed in an unassuming 200 year-old building, presided over by winemaker József Ádám. The fairytale-like vaulted stone cellar (which has three branches, covering 70 meters in length) is where Ádám works his magic. Following hundreds of years of Tokaj traditions, the old mould-covered cellar is where the grapes are processed and fermented, and where the wines are then aged (in barrels, and then bottles). And the cellar is truly spectacular, like something out of Harry Potter. Carved into volcanic rock, cellars like this one are one of the region’s most distinctive characteristics. The puffy black mould lining all of Tokaj’s old cellars is a unique characteristic, and helps the wine develop. The cellar is an elemental part of Ádám’s winemaking. His wines are precise and serious, and he believes in giving them the time to develop to their fullest potential, with long aging periods in barrels (mostly used oak), followed by long periods of bottle resting. This is 100 percent Furmint, made from grapes harvested from different parts of Szent Benedek’s estate. Blending is a signature part of Ádám’s winemaking. This one is a blend of six …

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In 1700 Tokaj developed one of the world’s earliest vineyard classification systems, and Tokaj is most famous for being the birthplace of Tokaji Aszú—one of the world’s oldest sweet wines.

Located in northeastern Hungary—which historically has been the crossroads of Central Europe—the region is framed by natural borders: the town of Tokaj in the southwest corner where the Bodrog and the Tisza rivers meet, the Bodrog river to the southeast, and the Zemplén hills to the northwest. The Tokaj region has 5,500 hectares of vineyards and 27 towns and villages. Wines from the different vineyards can all be quite different, and winemakers here love to experiment with single vineyard wines.

On top of its long and fascinating history, the Tokaj region has so much for wine-lover’s to discover. It is rich in a variety of volcanic soils; has a microclimate ideal for bringing on noble rot (botrytis); grows some really interesting indigenous grape varieties; and has a truly enchanting subterranean labyrinth of mould-covered cellars where the wines age. Though Tokaj is best known for its sweet Aszú wines, which are made from botrytized grapes, more than half of the wine it produces is dry.

Six official grape varieties grow in Tokaj. The superstars are the indigenous varieties Furmint and Hárslevelű, with Furmint being the high profile grape that tends to steal the show. Other varieties grown in smaller quantities are Sárga Muskotály, Kövérszölö, Zéta (a crossing of Furmint and Bouvier), and Kabar (a crossing of Hárslevelű and Bouvier). All of these wines are being increasingly made in dry styles, which winemakers are embracing because they are more marketable.

But it’s the sweet wines which make the region so unlike any other. They rely on the development of botrytis, which comes with the right weather conditions. The harvest here is a long, labor-intensive process which starts with the dry wine harvests, and continues with the harvesting of the botrytized grapes, which is done by hand.

In addition to Aszú (which is made with botryized grapes which are selectively harvested by hand, one berry at a time), other styles include late harvest wines, sweet and dry versions of Szamorodni (made with whole clusters of grapes containing a mixture of both botrytized and healthy grapes), Forditás (made from the second pressing after Aszú is made), Máslás (made from the second pressing after Aszú is made), and Eszencia (made from the free-run juice of Aszú berries, so thick and concentrated that it only reaches about four percent alcohol).

Szent Benedek’s winemaker, József Ádam, aims to show the diverse volcanic soils of the vineyards around the top Tokaj towns of Tállya and Mád. T

his small family-owned winery is located in a 17th century villa in the village of Tállya, with an enchanting old mould-covered cellar. Ádam is a winemaker with passionate ideas about his work, and what a Tokaj wine should be. He believes blending dry wines from different vineyards is the key to real Tokaj-style dry wines, comparing blending to being ‘like mixing spices in cooking’. Then he likes to age them to perfection, for much longer than most wineries in the region do today.

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