In context
of the still running Tasting-Week on dasweinforum.de I had
/ will have a couple of Blaufänkisch/Lemberger/Kékfrankos (B.L.K.) based wines.
Those wines will come from their “original (not all too definite where this
varietal originally comes from – maybe even from today’s West-Ukraine!?!)” viticulture
areas in Austria, Germany
and Hungry. Today I will start with the Hungarian representative:
The grapes
for my first B.L.K. come from Szekszárd area right between Budapest
and Villány in the Central-South of Hungary. The producer is definitely
one of the most famous names on the Hungarian red wine firmament. A producer rather
well known for its reasonable priced and reliable products. What
else to know? Apparently the B.L.K. vines are about 40 years old and the juice
aged in oak for approx. 18 months (I guess! My Hungarian is a bit rusty).
Its colour
seemed to me very regular and typical. Rather dark red with vibrant
sparkles. Very classic nose as well. I got plenty impressions of black currant
and blueberries, mild black pepper, a lot of tart liquorice scents, dark smoke. Here and there some cow-stable-potpourri, too. More “Classics” on the palatal
arch. Once again very lively black currant and blueberry flavours. Maybe some
dark cherries, too. Besides that typical almond (tart) flavours, slight oak
influence, mild smoke and not too much depth and "mineral" character. The concentration seemed to me as very appropriate
and not as weak as one might expect it from such a reasonable priced wine. The acid
was stern, but absolutely not ultraunusual for a B.L.K. Later it eased a
bit and got accompanied by decent flavours of high-percentage-dark-choco. I
really think I enjoyed this wine very much. It wasn’t a fantastically
intriguing representative for B.L.K., but it seemed to me as a very well
produced down-to-earth, with pretty impressive flavour
pattern, B.L.K. Hard to get something comparable for well under 10 Euros from Austria or Germany.
Nice one!
To be continued with ...
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