Mézesfehér is a nearly extinct grape variety, now found only in a handful of isolated pockets across Europe. We consider ourselves lucky to have two producers in our portfolio working with this rare variety, giving you the chance to discover it through the wines of Maurer Oszkár and Sütő Zsolt.
Zsolt crafts his wine in his signature minimalist, low-intervention style. Fermentation and ageing take place in well-used oak barrels, and the wine is bottled unfined, unfiltered and without any added sulphur. True to the variety, notes of stone fruit and a distinctive apricot-like character shine through, leading into a rich, lees-driven finish with a lovely saline edge.
It would be hard to find a more explosive personality than Zsolt. And there is nothing more honest than wine: it carries the unmistakable imprint of the person who made it.
Zsolt’s approach may seem radical at first glance: skin fermentation, extended aging on the lees, aging under veil, bottling with lees, and zero added sulfur. Yet in many ways, these methods are not modern at all. They are among the oldest and most natural ways o...
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