What is Furmint wine?
Furmint wine is produced with the grape of the same name. This white grape of Hungarian origin is the third most widely planted in its country of origin, and is ideal for dessert wines. In fact, it is so popular that it has its own honor day. International Furmint Day is celebrated on February 1 in countries such as Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Croatia and Austria. And it is from this last country that our furmint wine comes from.
Its main characteristic is that it ripens late, which makes it sensitive to frost and resistant to drought.
How is furmint grape wine?
With this grape, a mainly dry production is obtained. It is with the October harvests that sweets can be obtained. In general, they have high sugar levels, as well as acidity. In this way, various levels of flavors that are defined as complex are obtained.
In addition to desserts with the sweet variant, seafood is ideal to accompany furmint wine. However, it is very versatile and thanks to this we can enjoy it with meats, especially white, spicy or spicy.
The furmint wine available in BlancoTinto comes from the Michael Wenzel winery, a winemaker highly recognized for his white and dry furmint wines. His work is produced in the state of Burgenland, in Austria, with 10 cultivated hectares.
Next, we present the wines that we have available and that you can buy today. Some of them are limited editions of unique productions. Do not miss yours!
Furmint wine from Michael Wenzel winery
Michael Wenzel Furmint Reserve 2016: This limited production was fermented and aged in old barrels for 18 months. Its vinification follows the natural process and contains 25mg of SO2.
Michael Wenzel Garten Eden 2017 and 2018: These two productions, both limited, head the winery’s favourites. To produce it, they use a furmint that grows in a unique vineyard for this grape, called Garten Eden, in a section of old furmint derived from a masal section. With a high quartz content, the clusters grow looser and the grapes small.
In this furmint wine, the fermentation is carried out in new French barrels, of 500 liters, later aged in old barrels for 16 months. Like its previous production, its vinification is natural and contains 25mg of SO2. However, the 2018 production is macerated for 5 hours after the harvest. Then it is gently pressed and left to ferment naturally in second-use barrels and sandstone amphora. In turn, the wine was left on the lees until bottling with 35mg of S02.
Michael Wenzel Vogelsang 2018: This is one of the limited production parcel wines that come from the Vogelsang vineyard, which means Bird’s Song. At 28 years old, they contain a high content of blue quartz in their soil, as well as slate and gneiss.
This furmint wine comes from pressing whole clusters before fermenting it in old barrels. Then it is aged on its lees for 10 months. Contains very little added sulfur (29mg/l).
Michael Wenzel Furmint Aus Dem Quartz 2019: A fresh furmint wine whose origin comes from 3 plots with quartz soil, as well as a mixture of slate and gneiss. And this gives name to the production.
After a gentle pressing, it is fermented naturally with indigenous yeasts in Austrian wooden foudres with a capacity of 1,200 litres. They undergo malolactic fermentation for 8 months to be aged on the lees. S02 of 16mg/l.
