2010 Árvay János Furmint Tokaji Köves

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  12/19/2016 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: 91 Points

  The color is rad, looks like an apricot sauce. Perhaps golden raisin. It perhaps even smells like golden raisin, apple skin, with a strong bit of melon with a lemon sprinkled on top. The palate texture is awesome. There's this beautiful density to it that I love but it has this beautiful acidic counterpoint to that. Then you swallow and you're left with this graceful coating on the back palate, but then this immediate attack of intense acid. This acid mineral wash is what takes over, but again, there's this counterpoint here of oiliness that is so lovely, despite the dryness sapping the moisture from your mouth. There is something just so decadent about it. There's some wines for me where it's not just about the complexity of flavors, but the overall elegance and confidence to it that allows it to reach higher than one would think if you just paid attention to flavor. These wines are said to age for a long time, and I'm sure they will, but what will they lose in the process? I think the intensity of this wine was better on release, and I do think it has lost some of that. I wish I could have this wine every year, though. It's just killer.

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  6/25/2013 - Brix Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Our favorite of several delightful wines tasted with Angelika at Arvay Pinceszet. Everything you want in this type of wine: exquisite balance of acid, fruit, and decadent sweetness in a viscous, palate-coating nectar.

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  9/27/2012 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: 92 Points

  Notes, stories, and photos from another great day tasting in Tokaj, Hungary (Tokaj, Hungary): This vineyard is near Uragya, and is produced from a minuscule 0.4 hectare plot, from just 1 barrel is made, which she said produced 600 half bottles (though the bottle I bought was .5l, so who knows). Very interesting aromas, expressing absolutely beautiful fruits that smell soft and delicious. The palate is decedent and fantastically rich. Amazing. This completely coats the palate, and plays a graceful dance between the tension of the acidity and a complete, balanced fruit filled wine. Wow, what palate feel! A beautiful finish, with expressive acidity and minerality. This is painfully intense, but the best kind of pain. One of the most complete wines of its type I've experienced. This was not originally on the tasting list but Angelika pulled it after I was commenting how I loved the acid and balance of the 2010s, and I'm very thankful for the experience of having this wine. I was honestly a bit dumbfounded and in a daze after sipping this. (~1g/l RS and ~7.5 g/l TA).

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