Jammertal Wine Estate, Villány

At the prestigious Gilbert & Gaillard International Wine Challenge 2023 Jammertal Wine Estate achieved another brilliant result: 3 of their wines received not only gold, but double gold medlas. Wherever this estate enters wines, it pours gold rain like cats and dogs.

Bordeaux blends from the Hungarian Mediterranean region

The southernmost wine region of Hungary has an ideal climate for the Bordeaux varieties. Jammertal Wine Estate and its winemaker, Zsófia Kövesdi loves playing with the proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon, Franc and Merlot in their wines and this game is quite rewarding – as this and many other examples prove.
Until 30 November midnight, a 6 pack is available with 24% discount, which means that for two bottles of the three double gold winner wines each, customers should pay only 82 000 HUF / 217 EUR (instead of 108 000 HUF / 286 EUR).
Order now and you will receive the wines until 15 December. For shipping abroad contact the winery. The price may vary due to the actual exchange rates.

Gilbert & Gaillard comments about the wines

Koh-I-Noor 105.6 2017

Merlot (50 %), Cabernet Sauvignon (30%), Cabernet Franc (20%)
“Moderately sustained colour with garnet hues. Nose dominated by undergrowth (bark, moss, mushroom), ashy wood, and jammy wild berries. Refined on the palate, with well-integrated tannins. Elegant structure, ripe fruit. Balanced quality.” (92 points)
Would you like to know the reason for the number in the name of the wine? Zsófia Kövesdi will tell you!

Cassiopeia MCS*Achird 2018

Cabernet Sauvignon (80%), Merlot (20%)
“Light red with garnet reflections. Smoky woody nose, elegant ashy tones, notes of jammy fruit and dominant scents of undergrowth. Well-rounded on the palate, with well-integrated tannins. Moderate concentration and smooth ageing offer welcome suppleness.” (91 points)

Jammertal Blue Sky 2020

Cabernet Franc (95%), Merlot (5%)
“Fairly deep red with dark ruby hues. Delicately woody, vanilla and smoky on the nose, with a lovely display of ripe fruit(cherry, blackcurrant). Open, aromatic and powerful on the palate, with generous body, wood and soothing tannins. Promising future.” (90 points)

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Read our earlier article about Zsófia Kövesdi’s great acknowledgement:

Zsófia of Jammertal: Female Winemaker of the Year!

Read our earlier article about four 90+ Jammertal wines on WineAdvocate.com 

Quadruple Jammertal success on WineAdvocate.com

Selection-online.de wine contest of women winemakers

Zsófia Kövesdi has won the prestigious title Female Winemaker of the Year 2023 by Selection-online.de German online wine publication. On what principles was she been evaluated? In a very simple way: through the wines she made. Because the selecting process is in fact a wine contest for female wine producers. Around 40 winemakers submitted their wines to the contest, and the wines were judged on 7-9 March (because of the International Women’s Day). You can see the top 10 position here, with Zsófia, the winemaker of Villány Jammertal Wine Estate in the No1 position!

Golden rain on the good girl

The only condition of participation was to enter wines to the contest. Well, Jammertal entered 6 wines, and what happened? They received 6 gold medals, including a “top gold”. Do you know the fairy tale of Grimm brothers called Mother Holle? The good, industrious girl receives golden rain at the end as a reward. Zsófia also deserves the golden rain, she studied and worked hard in several countries, and at Jammertal she has every opportunity to make great wines: top quality vineyards, state-of-the-art facilities and a great team.

Jammertal wines entered Selection-online.de contest

Ars Poetica Chardonnay 2020, gold, 88 points
Ars Poetica Pinot Noir 2020, gold, 88 points
Jammertal Blue Sky 2020, gold, 92 points
Ars Poetica Syrah 2021, gold, 92 points
Koh-I-Noor Merlot 2019, gold, 89 points
Koh-I-Noor 105.6 Cuvée 2019, top gold, 93 points

Problems? Challenges!

Selection-online.de made an interview with Zsófia, from which we can get to know a little about her personality. “The most important factor, however, is market demand, which sometimes ties my hands,” she says. “Fortunately, I consider it a challenge and not a problem,” Zsófia Kövesdi adds. Considering all these factors, she intends to respect tradition, expressing terroir and power in her reds of Bordeaux varietes, but also giving them a little cheeky new-world style. “That means these wines retain structure and style, yet are full of energy and freshness.”

Read the original interview (in German) here

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Our latest article with Jammertal Parker points

Quadruple Jammertal success on WineAdvocate.com

 

 

Villány estate Jammertal boasts with four 90+ wine reviews on WineAdvocate.com – the three of them in the cover photo are available –, the influential wine website founded by Robert Parker. Importers, attention: the wines are not imported to the United States yet. Good news: all the three wines have very long ageing potential according to Mark Squires, the wine expert who has written the reviews.

“It will age gracefully”

2017 Jammertal Wine Estate Koh-I-Noor Cabernet Sauvignon
92 points
“Sensually textured with velvet, it is also tighton the finish, showing both lingering red fruits and some grippingpower. It is dry and serious, never jammy. It’s not too astringent, but this is not fully ready either. It has plenty of concentration to go with its ripe but never bombastic fruit. It seems like a beautiful package today, although one that will certainly benefit from another couple of years of age. It should age gracefully into the 2030s, granting that I have little track record with these, so there is no rush to dive in. You can drink it today if you wish, but that is probably a mistake without extended aeration.”
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“Polished and attractive“

2015 Jammertal Wine Estate Cassiopeia CF (Cabernet Franc)
90 points
“Beautifully textured and very elegant, this is bright and fresh with some firmness on the finish. The typical herbs fight with the vanilla from the wood. There’s a bit too much wood impact overall, but this is still polished and attractive. The extra few years in bottle have done it a lot of good and allowed it to pull in some of the wood, making that far less of a distraction. Then, you can focus on the velvety texture. It’s worth leaning up for the moment, even while wishing there was a bit less vanilla. This is likely to hold well throughout the decade, maybe longer.“

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“Finesse and precision”

2015 Jammertal Wine Estate Cassiopeia MCF * CAPH (84% Merlot & 16% Cabernet Franc)
90 points
“…there are extra years of bottle age, this shows pretty well and manages not to be overwhelmed by the wood. The rest is superb. As with its Cassiopeia siblings in this report, this MCF has reasonable mid-palate finesse and precision, a backbone and admirable structure overall. The texture here is sensual, too, with a velvety and caressing overlay. This seems young and poised to age very well, at least another decade. It can be drunk now, but you might want to give it another year or so if you can. It might still improve more.”
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“Elegant and restrained“

2019 Jammertal Wine Estate Koh-I-Noor Merlot
91 points

“Elegant and restrained, this is a wine that, like its Koh-I-Noor siblings in this report, needs a little more time,probably more than the winery is contemplating. It shows hints of a classic flavor profile, impressive structure, precision and fine mid-palate finesse. It needs to come together, become more harmonious and evolve. This looks like it has a great chance to do so, but as with its siblings, this is all about the potential today. Let’s start here, recognizing that it has a good chance to improve.”
(This wine is not released yet.)

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Portugieser grape variety has nothing in common with Port (in fact the ancient name of the variety, Oporto was taken away by EU in favour of the Portugese wine), Portugieser is a thin skinned, sensitive grape giving ligther, fruity wines for everyday consumption, but in very able hands Portugieser can give outstanding wines as well.

Zoltán Győrffy, chief organizer of the annual Portugieser competition believes in the variety, and his endeavor is rewarding: this year (the 7th contest) 100 wines will be evaluated from 6 countries by the international jury with members from 10 nations. The award ceremony will take place in the city of Pécs, on 27 April, at the University of Pécs, and winelovers will have the chance to taste the silver and gold winning wines, plus many other wines of the champion winemakers.

Location: University of Pécs KPVK Aula, Szántó Kovács János street 1, Pécs, Hungary

Date: 27 April, 15.00–20.00, Tickets: 3000 HUF (10 euros)

Tickets online

A stubborn guy – and a gold winner from last year

Bock Porta Géza Portugieser Jammertal Selection 2017 fromVillány is a gold winner from last year’s contest, and is a good example to show what Portugieser is capable of: full bodied, spicy, exciting. But the name is also story telling! József Bock, the owner of Bock Cellar is a character, indeed. Though he is in the age when people usually get retired, he is active and manages the huge estate with strong arms and clear visions. And there are things he cannot accept, for example the verdict of European Union which banned the name Oportó. József Bock simply could not get used to the new name, so he is not willing to name his wine Portugieser, instead he put „Porta Géza” on the label, which sounds a little bit like Portugieser, but it is rather a fictional first name and surname of a person. And here is how the wine is made: „A Portugieser from the Jammertal vineyard, bottled following fermentation and six months of maturation in wooden casks. The longer maturing period extends the wine’s lifetime. Crimson in colour with shades of purple, with velvety acids, fruity in flavour while cherry aromas appear in its bouquet. A more complex, spicier wine than is customary in a Portugieser.”

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