The sparkling wine shows a delicate golden-yellow colour, slightly deeper than in 2020. The mousse is fine and persistent.

The nose is moderately intense, pleasantly mature and refined —as we have come to expect from previous releases—but with a touch of subtle yeasty notes. Ripe apples and pears, lemon, white flowers, a hint of honey, dried flowers, hazelnut and bread crust. Layered and intertwined, this is the most generous expression of this sparkling Furmint to date.

Very dry, stylistically close to the 2019 vintage. The bubbles provide a fine, pleasing texture. It convinces with a higher level of (ripe) acidity and a lighter, lean body. The flavour intensity is pronounced, more evident than in earlier releases, showing more maturity and tertiary notes. This one marks a stylistic shift—from a strictly aperitif wine towards a more mature expression, and, we believe, a more serious and higher-quality one. With a long finish.

Appetizers, smoked trout or salmon, seafood, sushi. An excellent aperitif.

Vintage 2020 is second in a row, in which harvest times were stretched well into October, which was very much a normality 20-30 years ago. Prolonged ripening was allowed enabling grapes to achieve perfect ripeness giving wines with medium to low alcohol levels retaining high acidity levels and varietal characters. These are all attributes which wines from Štajerska Slovenia are famed for. We speak of 2020 as a classic Styrian vintage.

Classic, bottle fermented, with 48 months ageing on the lees.

It is ready now but will be in perfect shape for the following 3-5 years. Keep until 2025-2030.