Furmint bubbles in Spain

Hungarianwines.eu — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:40:51 +0000

Chateau Dereszla Prestige Reserve at a tasting in Catalonia

There is a small Catalan town where there are less than 13 000 inhabitants with more than 85 sparkling wine estates. It is called Sant Sadurní d’Anoia. If we leave out the kids, roughly there is a sparkling winery for each hundred people. Here people can appreciate sparkling wine. And recently a Hungarian sparkling wine has been presented as well by Xavier Roig wine expert (in pink T-shirt above with the Dereszla bottle), one of the best sommeliers of Spain.

The annual summer series of sparkling wine masterclasses is a big thing, tickets are sold out quickly. This year there was a tasting of international sparkling wines and the line-up included some precious names like Alfred Gratien Champagne and Hunter’s Wine from New Zealand along with a Prosecco and a Franciacorta. And a sparkling wine made with the traditional method from Tokaj wine region in Hungary, made of Furmint, our flagship white grape. The elegant, fruity sparkling wine with integrated bubbles and with its unique taste of the Tokaj terroir was received well – we are grateful to Xavier Roig for the great presentation. Chateau Dereszla Prestige Reserve is made of 100% Furmint grape and it spent 14 months on the lees, in the bottle.

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Dereszla Winery

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Any Dereszla wines in Spain? Yes!

Dear Spanish winelovers, I have a piece of bad and a piece of good news: at the moment the Furmint bubbly is not available in Spain, however, you can buy the “king of the wines, wine of the kings ” from Dereszla imported by Vila Viniteca. You can find several products, for example two vintages of dry Furmint, which is a novelty from Tokaj, also Eszencia, which is something super unique (318.90 euros / 0.25 L), and of course Tokaji Aszú, the noble sweet wine of Tokaj. The Tokaji Aszú is also available at the wine shop of Xavier Roig’s family called Cal Feru.

The whole Dereszla portfolio at Vila Viniteca

What is Tokaji Aszú and Eszencia?

More info here

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Barcelona meets Villányi Franc!

Hungarianwines.eu — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:16:09 +0000

Cabernet Franc tasting of Villány and Penedés

After Vinisud in Montpellier, France, the Spanish wine connoisseurs will have a chance to taste some stunning 100% Cabernet Franc wines from Villány, the so called Villányi Franc wines. Villány producers had been fans of Bordeaux grapes for a while, when they realized that Cabernet Franc gives especially beautiful examples on Villány soil. Then came Michael Broadbent, renowned wine expert, former director of London auction house, Christie’s wine department, tasted Villányi Franc and said: „Cabernet Franc has found its home in Villány”.

Penedés – more than cava

The wine region south-west of the capital of Catalonia, called Penedés is most famous for cava production, more than 80% of Spanish cava is made here. However, Catalan people are born connoisseurs, they love cava, but they equally love still wines, therefore dinners tables get heavy with red wine bottles when the meat courses arrive.

The tasting on 22 March will offer 100% Cabernet Franc wines from these two regions, Villány and Penedés.

A wine store with history

The tasting will take place in Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, in the agglomeration of Barcelona, a place which is known the „Capital of Cava”. Here there is a wine shop called Cal Feru, which has been running on the very same place for more than 80 years! Xavi Roig represents the fourth generation of the founding family, and the ambitious wine expert holds full house tastings in various topics regularly. Xavi Roig is among the best sommeliers of Spain, and he is glad to taste Villányi Franc wines. As he said, sweet wines of Tokaj sell well in their wine store, but Hungarian red is not included in their portfolio yet.

Villányi Franc wines to be tasted

Vylyan Villányi Franc, 2015
Gere & Weninger Villányi Franc, 2015
Bock Fekete-hegy Selection Villányi Franc, 2014
Gere Tamás & Zsolt Villányi Franc, 2012
Kővilla Válogatás Villányi Franc, 2012

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