Balassa Duck Furmint Tokaj 2024 Rhône This cuvée is fully destemmed—the

This cuvée is fully destemmed—the only one at the domaine—to temper its naturally robust tannic structure

Passalacqua is a Napa Valley native who worked with Eben Sadie in South Africa

Cold air drains off that plateau after sundown

The climat sits directly over the hill from Le Montrachet

Balassa Duck Furmint Tokaj 2024 Rhône This cuvée is fully destemmed—theThe Land Tokaj is famous for Asz, the botrytized sweet wine that European courts spent three centuries fighting over, and that reputation obscures what the region mostly makes now: dry Furmint. The geology is the same either way. These are the Zempln hills in northeastern Hungary, the eroded remains of a volcanic range, with rhyolite, andesite, and volcanic tuff under a layer of wind blown loess. What makes Tokaj unique is the confluence of the Bodrog