Somloi Vandor, Harslevelu, 2023 msk_archive Blackcurrant

Blackcurrant

best known for Château de Beaucastel

wrapped in a sleek

with finely etched acidity and a phenolic edge that brings quiet power and persistence

or tucked in the cellar for a few years of quiet transformation

Somloi Vandor, Harslevelu, 2023 msk_archive BlackcurrantSomlo is a lone extinct volcano rising straight out of the flat plains of northwest Hungary, one of the country's smallest and strangest wine regions, and one of the rare places on earth that makes almost nothing but white. Tamas Kis trained in Eger, home of Bull's Blood, before this volcanic butte hooked him for good, and his tiny Somloi Vandor project farms it organically with a minimal intervention hand. This is Harslevelu, an indigenous Hungarian