Somloi Vandor, Harslevelu, 2023 tinar de mirat This is Brovia at full

This is Brovia at full throttle

the wine shows a lovely balance of richness and restraint

with extended lees contact that gives it weight and grip without over-oaking

Château Saint-Pierre consistently overdelivers

walking the line between racy acidity and quiet richness

Somloi Vandor, Harslevelu, 2023 tinar de mirat This is Brovia at fullSomlo 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