Furmint in Hungary and beyond

Furmint February has become ‘a thing’, since it was first launched in London in 2019, when I got into a ferment about Furmint. In 2020, just a hair’s breadth away from the first COVID lockdown, Jancis managed to get to the second Furmint February tasting, asking if Furmint was Hungary’s trump card, and also musing that it was, perhaps, the grape for February.

Since I first encountered it in 2016, I’ve become a firm fan of Furmint, and increasingly fascinated...