Juliet Victor Furmint Király 2017

Juliet Victor Furmint Király 2017 

Dry, single-vineyard

Tasting notes:
Clean light intensity lemon with lemon reflexes. High viscosity and round 
bodied sip. The wine is dry and in the long aftertaste the furmint’s pear 
character playing an important role hand in hand with apple, peach and a 
complex minerality. More than medium acidity and medium alcohol feeling 
completed with ripe character fruits of quince, apple and pear. Long aging 
potential.

Vineyard: Király
Alcohol: 13%
Barrel ageing: 9 months
Dry extract: 19.6 g/l
Acidity: 6.8 g/l
Residual sugar: 1.4 g/l
Grape varieties: 100% Furmint
Harvest period: 15 September – 06 October 2017

Király vineyard information:
Within the historical Király vineyard there are 3 hectares of connecting vineyards with a 2.4 m x 0.9 m plant-to-plant distance. The parcel is home to 1 hectare of furmint, 1 hectare of hárslevelű and 1 hectare of yellow muscatel grape varieties. 
The imposing plantation is at the foot of the highest volcanic mountain of Mád - the soil is a mixture of riolittufa and clay within its soil.

Awards & Ratings:

2021 Decanter World Wine Awards Gold

JancisRobinson.com (March 2021) – 17+/20
Tasting notes “Locust-tree flowers (if you've ever smelt a locust tree in flower, a wildly heady perfume, you will know exactly what I mean!).

This is a fizz-popping catherine-wheel firework of a wine! This is like tasting the best lime pickle with an electric current running through it, and then wrapping that in homemade just-fired-into-mouth-popping jalapeno tempura and then slip-sliding the length of a waterfall.

It's salty and stony and glistening with scintillas of acidity and it has the lean 
build of an Olympic child gymnast and so much texture it almost has tannins. This is Furmint while it's still ascendant, still becoming, wearing its shiny brittle carapace like a superhero, racing through so fast and intently that you're left stunned with 
awe, bewildered or terrified. Give this Furmint a little bit of time. It's exciting now, but the beauty of it will become apparent as it develops.” (Tamlyn Currin)

Source: https://www.jancisrobinson.com/tastings/230593