Descriptions of Grapes (long)

Thanks. nice writeup. I didn't realize there was Scheurebe in Austria.

You might mention that Furmint is not exclusively used for dessert wines.

Dale

Dale Williams Drop "damnspam" to reply

Thought of that about two seconds after I posted the list, vis a vis our earlier topic. How about this?

FURMINT: When used to make a dry styled wine, tends towards notes of apple, quince, and somthing floral. Clean, firm, compact, high in expression and good acid balance. Alternately, it is the traditional grape used over a hundred years ago for creating Ruster Ausbruch dessert wines. The Furmint grape has a soft skin which is easily damaged and thus allows the grape to dehydrate quickly.

E.

Don't you think that more people would associate Furmint with Tokaji than with Ruster Ausbruch?

Mark Lipton

Mark, this is to be a guide to Austrian grapes, if I'm not mistaken. Surely Furmint is most famous for Tokaji, but in this case Ruster Ausbruch. Dale

Dale Williams Drop "damnspam" to reply

All true.

But what do you think of the new description? To be honest, unlike the other grapes, I've only had a dry furmint once and that was a bit of time ago. And I didn't take notes. So, the description is really heresay with some science mixed in. Reasonable?