Botrytised grapes on 17th October. 64 °Brix…
Centuries ago it was held that the less Eszencia was produced, the better the vintage was. There wasn’t too much coming from these…
Entries by Barta Pince
New findings about the history of the Király vineyard
A 17th-century litigation was recently unearthed.
Costes Downtown Budapest stocks our Furmint 2015
Goose liver is the match for our 2015 Furmint Válogatás at Michelin-star Costes Downtown in Budapest….
Success in San Francisco
Our 2015 Furmint at the San Francisco International Wine Competition: – 95 points – Double Gold – Best Furmint in Show 🙂
Bringing Kővágó back to life
A historical moment: the Kővágó dűlő being planted back on 15th May. It’ll be 3 hectares of Furmint and 0.5 hectare of Hárslevelű.
Teraszok 2016
Another lot of ours offered for sale at the 2017 Tokaj Wine Auction (the other one being a Szamorodni 2015): a dry Furmint, vinified from the grapes of the bush vines on the high terraces of our Öreg Király vineyard. Made in steel.
Barta Furmint 2013 scores 91 in Wine Spectator
Our Furmint 2013 rated 91 points and selected as Editor’s Choice in the May 2017 issue of Wine Enthusiast.
Pruning underway
The Öreg Király Vineyard on the morning of 15th February: pruning is now underway on the terraces and is expected to be completed in all our 10 hectares before the end of the month.
Floor area of temp-controlled fermentation room doubled
A quick relocation of a partition almost doubled the floor area of our temperature-controlled fermentation room in mid-January. Aging here are some of the 2016 lots that we tasted in-house on 11th to decide on blending and further treatment. Suffice it to say for now that they were very promising…
The “Tenth Harvest”
Awaiting bottling in this steel tank on 15th December 2016 is something special from the 2015 vintage: a dry Furmint aged in a Hungarian oak barrel, made of steam-bent staves, that is to say, with no toast at all. It’ll be called Tenth Harvest.