Definitions
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- noun A type of grape grown in Hungary, commonly used in
tokays . - noun A wine made from this grape.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A blend of furmint grapes from various parcels of the Szepsy estate, this wine gives fragrant melon-type fruit with good weight but less concentration, minerality, and a less generous finish.www. szepsy.hu Disznoko, Tokaji Dry Furmint, 2006
Beyond Sweet 2009
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Black grapes of the clevener and portuguese varieties are pressed as in the Champagne, so as to yield a white must, with which a certain portion of white wine from the mosler or furmint grape is subsequently mingled.
Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857
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Pettau, Radkersburg, the Picherergebirge, and Luttenberg, the latter yielding the finest wine which Styria produces, vintaged from the mosler or furmint -- that is, the Tokay variety of grape.
Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857
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But furmint, the principal grape used in those dessert bottles, has lately been finding new life in dry wines of real distinction.
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This 2006 dry furmint from Royal Tokaji, the company co-founded by British wine writer Hugh
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When I still have so much to learn about Chianti, riesling, Rioja, Bordeaux, you name it, why would I want to turn my attention to dry furmint, to say nothing of harslevelu and juhfark?
The Pour By ERIC ASIMOV 2010
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When I still have so much to learn about Chianti, riesling, Rioja, Bordeaux, you name it, why would I want to turn my attention to dry furmint, to say nothing of harslevelu and juhfark?
The Pour 2010
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