Dry Furmint – good or bad?

See also today’s Hungarian tasting notes.
 
To continue the debate for and against Dry Furmint in Tokaj, as outlined in Victoria Daskal’s article Running Dry in Tokaj last week, I reproduce the arguments in favour of it evinced by Hungarian wine writer Gabriella Mészáros when I asked her about it last year:
 
1)      The whole Tokaj-Hegyalja is nothing more than 500 different small volcanoes based on extremely sophisticated soils. Producing sweet wines – however good they are – is not the same as making dry ones. You cannot detect the differences and nuances so strongly...