Winery Szemes JozsefPortugieser
Red wine
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Details and technical informations about Winery Szemes Jozsef's Portugieser.
Discover the grape variety: Autumn royal
Table grape with long bunches and elongated, seedless black-violet berries with thin skin and crunchy flesh, neutral sweet flavour. Late ripening, autumn harvest. Very rarely vinified. Grown in California, Australia, South Africa and Chile for export markets, prized for its attractive appearance and extended cold-storage life. An American seedless table grape variety developed in California in 1996.
Last vintages of this wine
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Informations about the Winery Szemes Jozsef
The Winery Szemes Jozsef is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 17 wines for sale in the of Villány to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Villány
Hungary's hottest region, kingdom of powerful reds in the south. Signature Cabernet Franc ("Villányi Franc"): deep and refined with notes of ripe blackcurrant, black pepper, violet, graphite and tobacco, firm tannins and great ageing potential. Also fleshy, spicy Kékfrankos (Blaufränkisch), supple, fruity Portugieser, round Merlot and dense Cabernet Sauvignon. Successful Bordeaux blends.
The wine region of Dél-Pannónia
Southern Hungary (Pécs, Szekszárd, Villány, Tolna), ~7,800 ha on loess and limestone, continental climate with Mediterranean influences — bastion of great Hungarian reds. Kékfrankos and Kadarka signatures as native red kings: spiced and structured with black cherry, blackberry, plum, paprika, pepper and smoky hint, firm tannins. Ripe Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon in Bordeaux blends at Villány. Specialities Szekszárdi Bikavér and unique Cirfandli white at Pécs (spiced, honeyed).
The word of the wine: Heady
Said of a wine rich in alcohol, powerful and expressive.
