Royal Tokaji Furmint

Royal Tokaji was founded in 1990 by well-known author Hugh Johnson and a small group of investors who were inspired to restore and preserve Hungary’s precious wine legacy after the fall of Communism. Tokaji is the world’s original sweet white wine – the “cult wine” of the 18th and 19th centuries – and the Tokaj wine region was the first to have classified vineyards. At the end of the 17th century, Prince Rakoczi classified the finest vineyards into: great first growths, first growths, second growths and third growths. Royal Tokaji owns five of those first and second growth vineyards, including one of Hungary’s two great first growths: Mézes Mály. The Royal Tokaji Furmint is a great example of the varietal in dry form. Sleek, oily, and high-toned. Green melon, apple, and white raspberry make up the fruits here, with lemon oil, slate, petrol, and savory cured tobacco character adding more depth to the wine.