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One of the confusing things about wine is that often we can identify a wine and the basic facts about it -- we may have even tasted it -- but because it\\u2019s not obvious, we don\\u2019t know the grapes behind the wine. Although I bet you\'ve heard of Tokaji, the great sweet wine of Hungary, you may not be familiar with Furmint, the main white grape that makes the wine sing and that usually makes up 85-90% of the blend of Tokaji.

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What you also may not know is that this grape is not just for sweet wines. Starting around the year 2000, ambitious, creative producers began a quest to make quality dry wine from the grape and have had a quite a lot of success over the last 20+ years.

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In this show we discuss Furmint, the white grape native to Tokaj-Hegyalia wine region of northeastern Hungary, that makes everything from simple bone-dry wine to complex oak-aged versions, to sparkling wine, to the classic botrytized sweet wines, Tokaji.

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Photo: The Furmint grape. Credit: Wines of Hungary

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