SZENT TAMÁS – 1ST GROWTH TOKAJI FURMINT DRY 2019

Szt. Tamás is a celebrated First Growth vineyard partly sloping southwest, which overlooks the Royal Tokaji winery in Mád, and partly east, which goes down to a brook valley. The soil in both parts is rich, red clay interspersed with indigo and purple volcanic rocks on and below the surface. The eastern part has the cooler climate of the two. An excellent vintage for dry wines, 2019 was warm and early and provided ripe and full-flavoured Furmint grapes with balancing acidity. Summer was hot with temperatures often above 35℃ and with persistent showers, again accelerating maturation and the grapes were ready earlier than usual for harvesting for dry wine production. We harvested the grapes for this wine from the cooler, eastern side of Szt. Tamás at the end of September.