ÖTW Single Vineyard Summit 2023

István Balassa’s 2017 Szamorodni in the glass

I say: #Hegytörvény for Somló!

I came across the following picture on Facebook the other day, dated 1896, with the caption “Istanbul wine seller”.

It’s like a magic phrase, we are a cool climate wine region, we make cool climate wine, ergo it’s much better, more in everything, lovelier, more delicious than other warm climate wines. Anyway, we cool climate winemakers are much more attractive, taller, stronger. Look at us, smiling in the photo, all 32 teeth gleaming in the sunlight…