Winery PannonDominium Tokaji Muscat - Furmint Cuvée
White wine
This wine generally goes well with spicy food and sweet desserts.
Food and wine pairings with Dominium Tokaji Muscat - Furmint Cuvée
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Original food and wine pairings with Dominium Tokaji Muscat - Furmint Cuvée
The Dominium Tokaji Muscat - Furmint Cuvée of Winery Pannon matches generally quite well with dishes of spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of pasta shells or very simple muffins.
Details and technical informations about Winery Pannon's Dominium Tokaji Muscat - Furmint Cuvée.
Discover the grape variety: Furmint
Furmint is a very old Hungarian grape variety. It arrived in France in the 1800s. The bunches of Furmint are of medium size. They are compact and cylindrical. The berries are also of medium size. They are either short elliptical or rounded. Their thick skin changes from greenish white to reddish once the fruit is mature. This grape variety is known throughout the world for being part of the composition of the Hungarian Tokaj vintage. Robust, rich in alcohol and acidity, it needs light soil and a warm, dry climate to be fertile. It must also be pruned short and its budding takes place 7 days after the Chasselas. As for its maturity, it is of the second late period. This grape variety fears grey rot and erinosis. When vinified dry, Furmint produces a very fragrant, fine and highly alcoholic white wine.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Dominium Tokaji Muscat - Furmint Cuvée from Winery Pannon are 2011, 0
Informations about the Winery Pannon
The Winery Pannon is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 26 wines for sale in the of Tokaj to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Tokaj
Tokaj (formerly Tokaj-Hegyalja) has Long been Hungary's most famous and respected wine region, thanks mostly to its nectar-like, botrytized Tokaji dessert wines. The region and its wine are held in such esteem in Hungary that the national anthem thanks God for it: Tokaj szolovesszein nektárt csepegtettél - into the vineyards of Tokaj you dripped Sweet nectar The region is located in the northeast of Hungary, near the border with Slovakia. Comprising roughly 30 small towns and villages, it measures 40 kilometers (25 miles) from southwest to northeast, making it roughly the same Size as Burgundy's Côte d'Or. At its very southern edge is the town of Tokaj from which the region and its wines ultimate take their name.
The word of the wine: Grand Cru
In Burgundy, the fourth and final level of classification (above the regional, communal and premier cru appellations), designating the wines produced on delimited plots of land (the climats) whose name alone constitutes the appellation. The climats classified as Grand Cru are 32 in the Côte d'Or plus one in Chablis which is divided into 7 distinct climats. Representing barely 1.5% of the production, the Grand Crus are the aristocracy of Burgundy wines.
