In Recognition of Hungary’s Newest Wine Style, The Clever Root Celebrates the Year of Furmint

…”The other, more pragmatic reason for the stylistic shift toward dry Furmint is that fine dining itself has changed.…In change lies opportunity, and with Furmint the Szepsy’s have stripped away gilded layers to reveal the grape’s underlying structure. It’s always been there—like an artist’s underpainting - hidden beneath fat-over-lean layers of luminous oil paint and varnish.”

Clever Root Summer 2017