Gábor and Zsófi are close friends of mine, and I mean that in the most relevant way possible: knowing them is part of why I trust this bottle so completely. They took over Fekete Pince in 2014 from Béla Fekete, the "Grand Old Man of Somló," who built the winery from a small farm in the early 1970s into one of Hungary's most respected estates. 

Gábor and Zsófi work just 4.3 hectares on the volcanic slopes of Somló hill, and they follow Béla's unhurried approach: 4 hours of skin contact, native yeast fermentation in 1000-liter Hungarian oak barrels, and then years of quiet aging before the wine ever leaves the cellar. 

Only 1,400 bottles of this Furmint were made. That kind of scarcity isn't marketing; it's just what happens when you farm this carefully to produce elegant age-worthy white wines.