Furmint
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Furmint is a variety of wine grape from the Pontian Balcanica branch of vitis vinifera, used for white wines. The name Furmint is taken from the word "froment" for the wheat-gold color of the wine it produces.
Furmint
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Sometimes brilliant winemaking variety, often contributing an elusive, smoky character to its wines, that can be dry or outrageously sweet. Lime infused aromas, intense stonefruit flavours and a certain razzle-dazzle.
Furmint
Mostly found in Hungary, (although small quantities are found throughout Eastern Europe), Furmint is the main grape in Tokaji one of the world's great dessert wines. Furmint is also vinified as a dry, crisp and clean white wine.
FURMINT
A white-wine grape widely grown in Hungary, as well as to some extent in Austria and Slovenia. Used to make the ultra-sweet Tokaji whites. In Austria it is called Mosler, and in Slovenia, Sipon.
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Furmint, white wine grape from Hungary's Tokay region. Furmint grapes have a thin skin which makes them susceptible to Botrytis Cinerea or Noble Rot, which causes the famous shrivelled Aszŭ ...
Furmint
Synonyms
None in Australia, but the variety is known as Tokay in France, as Tokayu in Hungary and as Tokayer or Edler Weisser in Austria and Germany.
FURMINT:
Widely grown grape in Hungary and used to make the ultra-sweet "Tokaji" white wines. Also grown in Austria where it is known as the white-wine grape Mosler.
Furmint (white)
Susceptible to raisining and noble rot (known as aszú in Hungary's Tokaji), this full-bodied, high acid quality grape is the major partner in the blend with Hárslevelú ...
Furmint - (FOOR-mint)
Hungarian white-wine grape, used to make the renowned dessert wine Tokay (which see).
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FURMINT: Widely grown grape in Hungary and eastern Europe. Recent DNA analysis (2002) suggests the variety resulted from a Heunisch Weiss/Gouais Blanc cépage cross with an unknown hungarian variety.
FURMINT: Widely grown grape in Hungary. Used to create a dry varietal and the famous long-aging, ultra-sweet "Tokaji" white wines. Also grown in Austria where it is known as the white-wine grape Mosler.
In this region, besides the famous sweet wine, is also produced white dry wine mainly with Furmint, Hárslevelü and Muscat Lunel grapes, the same used for Aszú.
The great wine of Hungry, made from the Furmint grape. Tokaji Furmint is dry, and rare outside the region. Tokaji Szamorodni is a bit sweeter, but no less rare. Tokaji Aszu is the sweet version, and the one most likely to be found in the US.
In certain white grape varieties, such as Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, and Furmint, an infection of Botrytis can be so beneficial, even critical to dessert wines like French Sauternes, German Tröckenbeerenauslese, or Hungarian Tokaj, ...
Green grape that is a furmint x trebbiano-crossing. Gives a wine of little alcohol, may used for sparkling wine.
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The grape variety is called Tokay-Furmint and the process seems quite similar to those of both French Sauternes and the German Trockenbeerenauslesen of the Rhine.
Tokay: A dessert wine made in Hungary from dried Furmint grapes.
Trocken: German for "dry."
Varietal: A wine made from just one grape type and named after that grape; the opposite of a blend.
Tokay: A dessert wine made in Hungary from dried Furmint grapes.
Tonneau: A barrel or cask with a capacity of 900 liters.
Trocken: German for "dry." ...
Tokay. Celebrated sweet white wine; specifically, the special product of the Tokay district in northeastern Hungary. The chief grape variety is Furmint, although a little Harslevelu is also grown.
The fact that Tokay is today made from Furmint and Hárslevlu would suggest this is unlikely, although it is by no means impossible. Only 80 years ago, the noble varieties that now cover Alsace accounted for less than 10% of all the vines planted.
Gris and Tokay d'Alsace are also grown in the Alsace where the latter variety is used to make a golden-yellow wine with aromatic, fruity flavors that improves with a couple of years in the bottle - (but not to be confused with the Hungarian Furmint ...
 See also: Grape, Wine, Region, White, Dry
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