Ep 470: The Grape Miniseries -- Furmint

<p class="MsoNormal">One of the confusing things about wine is that often we can identify a wine and the basic facts about it -- we may have even tasted it -- but because it’s not obvious, we don’t know the grapes behind the wine. Although I bet you've heard of Tokaji, the great sweet wine of Hungary, you may not be familiar with <strong>Furmint</strong>, the main white grape that makes the wine sing and that usually makes up 85-90% of the blend of Tokaji.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">What you also may not know is that this grape is not just for sweet wines. Starting around the year 2000, ambitious, creative producers began a quest to make quality dry wine from the grape and have had a quite a lot of success over the last 20+ years.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">In this show we discuss Furmint, the white grape native to Tokaj-Hegyalia wine region of northeastern Hungary, that makes everything from simple bone-dry wine to complex oak-aged versions, to sparkling wine, to the classic botrytized sweet wines, Tokaji.</p> <p> </p> <p>Full show notes are now exclusively available on<span class= "apple-converted-space"> </span><a href= "http://www.patreon.com/winefornormalpeople">Patreon!</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.patreon.com/winefornormalpeople">Become a member today!</a></p> <p><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/45638/furmint_1_2019.jpeg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style= "font-size: 8pt;">Photo: The Furmint grape. Credit: Wines of Hungary</span></em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Podcast Sources:</p> <div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="fsoih" data-offset-key="3ql37-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="3ql37-0-0"><a class="sc-bUKjYF ddgEer" href= "https://winesofhungary.hu/"><span data-offset-key= "3ql37-0-0