2018 Jakab Padi-Hegy Furmint

Jakab

Hungary / Tokaj / Jakab

Padi-hegy is the estate's original vineyard, purchased in 2006. It faces south, rocky and stony with soils of rhyolite tuff, geyserite and limnoquarzite with heavy clay content. It doesn’t really lend itself to sweet wines, and is ideally suited to lean, mineral dry wines. This is 100% Furmint spontaneously fermented and aged in oak barrels. Jakab uses a mix of Stockinger barrels, Hungarian oak and wood from France’s Atelier cooperage.

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About Jakab

Jakab Pince was established by Zoltán Jakab in 2007, the year he met pioneering electronic musician-cum-winemaker Attila Homonna. Zoltán asked Attila to vinify his first vintage that year, and since then they have gradually built the winery step by step, purchasing more land and increasing production. The estate’s home is on Padi-hegy, the Jakab family’s original vineyard, while Zoltán also has holdings on Rány, considered by many to be the jewel in Tokaj’s crown. Jakab has been organically farmed since day one, and shares with Homonna a simple, natural, holistic approach to winegrowing.

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Zoltán Jakab is a medical doctor who was infected by the winemaking bug as a child by watching his late grandfather tending to his small vineyard near Miskolc, a large city about 50km from Tokaj, making a small amount of wine each year for family consumption. Some years later, his father purchased some vines in the Padi-hegy vineyard, which is the base for the winery today.