Furmint comes to town Wine aficionados are always curious when presented with a little-known grape variety or a bottle from a new winemaking venture. Last weekend, a gaggle of wine writers, followed up by an eager group of consumers, descended on the Sonoma Community Center to learn about and taste one of Hungary’s indigenous grapes, […]

Furmint’s Great Adventure: A Hungarian Wine Overseas For the most part, only highly astute, discerning of wine lovers outside of Hungary can name traditional, native Hungarian varietals, or can identify a Hungarian wine beyond the formerly state-controlled, mass-produced Bikavér (Bull’s Blood). True, the dessert wines of Tokay have made inroads with hardcore wine enthusiasts abroad, […]

Hungary Introduces the U.S. to its Premium Dry White Wines with Furmint USA Campaign Joe Roberts Furmint Video and Special Furmint Tasting November 8 in Sonoma, CA November 4, 2014, Sonoma, CA—Dry Furmint wines from Hungary’s esteemed Tokaj region are now being promoted in the United States by the newly-formed group FurmintUSA. FurmintUSA is headed […]