Wenzel Alte Reben Furmint 2021

Wenzel Alte Reben Furmint 2021

Wenzel
$55.00

Grape: Furmint
Vintage: 2021
Type: White

This dry white wine is a pure varietal bottling of Furmint sourced from old estate vines near Rust. Michael Wenzel manages these heritage plots on mica schist and weathered limestone soils that naturally restrict vine yields. The hand-picked grapes are pressed gently and ferment spontaneously with native wild yeasts inside old neutral Austrian oak casks. The wine matures on its fine lees for several months to encourage natural structural balance without wood flavor dominance.

It pours a clear straw color, releasing clean aromatics of green orchard fruit, lemon flesh, and white flowers. On the palate, a sleek, medium-bodied frame balances crisp pear flavors with an underlying chiseled mineral core. A racy vein of natural acidity cuts through the slightly waxy texture, maintaining great freshness and an athletic energy. Subtle layers of wet rock and wild herbs add depth across the clean framework. It concludes bone-dry and persistent.

Wenzel is Michael Wenzel's family estate in Rust, on the western shore of Lake Neusiedl in Burgenland, where the family has been making wine for centuries. The domaine is especially important for its role in reviving Furmint in Austria: Michael's father Robert brought historic plant material back from Hungary in the 1980s, when the variety had nearly disappeared from Rust. Today Wenzel farms organically and works with Furmint, Blaufrankisch, Pinot Noir and other varieties in limestone, gneiss and quartz-influenced sites. The wines are spontaneous, minimally handled and quietly radical, linking Burgenland's present to a nearly lost Danube tradition.