Type of the wine: White, sparkling

Grape variety: Furmint

Acidity:  7.7 g/l

Alcohol: 12%

Dosage: 6.3 g/l

Terroir, vineyard:  Öreg király vineyard (Mád, Tálya)

Training system:  Low cordon

Harvest: Hand harvested

Technology: We, at Barta, only make a pezsgő, that is, sparkling wine in vintages that perfectly suit the purpose – and 2017 was exactly such a vintage. It was an ‘easy’ growing season with limited pest pressure and a long, sunny days that ensured good phenolic ripeness and balance in the grapes. The Furmint base wine had high and fine, fresh acidity, along with minerality and elegance. Secondary fermentation took place in the bottle, and the wine was aged on the lees for 3 years before disgorgement.

Quality level:  Premium

Temperature:  6–8 °C

Available quantity:  N/A

Retail price:  30 euro

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Type of the wine: White, sweet

Grape variety: Furmint

Acidity: 13 g/l

Alcohol:  9.5%

Sugar: 245 g/l

Terroir, vineyard:  Öreg király vineyard (Mád, Tálya)

Training system:  Low cordon

Harvest: Hand harvested

Technology: Botyrtised Furmint berries of exceptional quality were macerated in fermenting Furmint base wine for 18 hours and pressed for the juice to be fermented in oak barrels for three weeks. After fermentation, the wine was cooled and racked, and then aged for 24 months in 228-litre Zemplén oak barrels (medium toasted with toasted heads), made by Kádár Hungary. The barrels were topped up continually for protection against oxygen.

Quality level:  Premium

Temperature:  13 °C

Food pairing:  Ideal with cheese – blue cheese, Stilton, Roquefort – and with desserts like ‘flódni’ (a typical Jewish cake made of walnut, poppy- seed, apple and honey), pancake with vanilla and mint chips, lemon sorbet, vanilla cream. A perfect aperitif with goat cheese, walnut chips and fig and unforgettable with foie gras.

Available quantity:  N/A

Retail price: 120–130 euro  / 0.375 L

Awards:  DWWA 2020 Platinum award (97 points)

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Type of the wine: White, sweet

Grape variety: Furmint

Acidity: 7.07 g/L

Alcohol:

 12.11%

Residual sugar: 133 g/L

Terroir, vineyard:  Öreg király vineyard (Mád, Tálya)

Training system:  Low cordon

Harvest: Hand harvested

Technology: The perfect 2017 vintage saw partially-botrytised bunches of Furmint harvested from 3rd to 28th October, destemmed, and gently pressed after 4 hours of skin contact for this wine. After 24 hours of sedimentation, the juice was fermented in 15 per cent new oak and 85 per cent used oak, and then aged in the same barrels for 12 months, until bottling in January 2019.

Quality level:  Premium

Temperature:  10 °C

Food pairing:  Ideal with cheese – blue cheese, Stilton, Roquefort – and with desserts like pancake with vanilla and mint chips, lemon sorbet, vanilla cream. A perfect aperitif with goat cheese, walnut chips and fig and unforgettable with foie gras.

Available quantity:  N/A

Retail price:  27–30 euro

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Type of the wine: White, sweet

Grape variety: Furmint, Muscat Blanc

Acidity: 7.7 g/L

Alcohol: 11.4%

Residual sugar: 93 g/L

Terroir, vineyard:  Öreg király vineyard (Mád, Tálya)

Training system:  Low cordon

Harvest: Hand harvested

Technology: Furmint makes up 65 per cent of this sweet blend, bringing the acidity for great balance and drinkability to this wine whose nose is dominated by the aromas of Sárgamuskotály [Muscat Blanc]. Mostly fermented in a steel tank, with 20 per cent in oak, this slightly botrytised wine is one of our first releases from the outstanding 2021 vintage.

Quality level:  Basic

Temperature:  10 °C

Food pairing:  A great pair of pancakes, mousse desserts, but also recommended as aperitif or enjoy it by itself.

Available quantity:  N/A

Retail price:  14-15 euro

Story:  The wine family named ‘Egy kis’ (‘A Little’) targets winelovers at the beginning of their wine education, who still wish to taste great quality wines. “Easy to fall in love with” wine with baskets of fruit. Fresh and lovely entry level wines to enter consumers in the world of serious fine wines.

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Type of the wine: White, dry

Grape variety: Furmint

Acidity / alcohol content:  7,7 g/l  / 13%

Terroir, vineyard:  Öreg király vineyard (Mád, Tálya)

Training system:  Low cordon

Harvest: Hand harvested

Technology: This Furmint is the fruit of a hot and dry vintage, and similarly to its predecessors it was fermented in first, second, third and fourth use Hungarian oak barrels (‘Zemplén oak’), then it was matured for 9 months also in barrel until being bottled in August 2016.

Quality level:  Premium

Temperature:  12 °C

Food pairing:  A perfect partner of smoked fish dishes and meals with guacamole.

Available quantity:  1.075 Bottles

Retail price:  8000 HUF / 25 EUROS

Story:  This is the first Barta labelled wine which was filled in the new dry tokaj bottle. It won double gold at the international wine competition in San Francisco in 2017 with 95 scores, what is more it was selected the best Furmint wine of the contest.

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Type of the wine: White, dry

Grape variety: Furmint

Acidity: 7.4 g/L

Alcohol:  14%

Residual sugar: 8.6 g/L

Terroir, vineyard:  Öreg király vineyard (Mád, Tálya)

Training system:  Low cordon

Harvest: Hand harvested

Technology: In 2021, a cool spring and late flowering made vines fall some two weeks behind the calendar and they would never catch up with it until the end of the growing season. This meant that dry wine harvest was pushed back to the second half of what was an extremely dry September. With some residual sugar and a brief touch of oak, this single-vineyard Furmint sports an amazing structure, marked by refreshing, racy acidity. An outsanding vintage.

Quality level:  Premium

Temperature:  10 °C

Food pairing:  Perfect with medium steak, an ideal partner of spicy meals and nicely harmonizes with roast meat and venison dishes as well.

Available quantity:  N/A

Retail price:  24-25 euro

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