Villány: Cabernet Franc’s new frontier
Villány: Cabernet Franc’s new frontier
A detailed article was posted on British wine business site www.drinksbusiness.com about Cabernet Franc and its significance in Villány, south of Hungary. As the article says “Hungary accounts for just 2% of world Cabernet Franc plantings with 1,300 hectares of vines, but it is with Chile, the joint-fourth biggest producer of the grape after France and Italy.” Then Drinks Business gives the reasons for Villány being great by quoting outstanding procers, like Mónika Debreczeni from Vylyan: “Villányi Franc is unique – deep, rounded, complex, spicy, without green notes.”’ Then the article goes on reporting on problems why Villányi Franc is not yet widely known: “The region and its country Hungary have a couple of problems in export markets like the UK. The first is based on a rather lazy, unexamined prejudice that it is ‘ex-communist’ and ‘Eastern European” and therefore mediocre.” Well, Villányi Franc is not mediocre at all, taste it and you will believe it!
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