Day Pass Sunday December 6
All day events in the Lechwelten incl. lunch at a reduced tariff.
Tasting
Furmint on the rise
Furmint as Central Europe’s New Star
Date 6 DEC 2026
Location Lechwelten
Time 13:30 – 15:00
Price incl. VAT
€ 120,00 incl. lunch from 12:30 p.m.
Furmint is drawing renewed attention in Central Europe. Wojciech Bońkowski MW shows why the variety is compelling for origin, acid structure, and climate adaptation, and which wines are setting the benchmark today.
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Furmint as Central Europe’s New Star
Details
Furmint was long associated above all with Tokaj. Today the old Central European variety is moving back into focus: for its distinctive acidity, its ability to express origin with precision, and its potential under drier, warmer conditions.
Wojciech Bońkowski MW, a specialist in the wines of Central Europe, presents selected Furmints in this tasting and places them in context. The tasting shows how varied the interpretations can be, from mineral and taut to complex and long-lived, and why the variety is finding new attention among a younger generation of winemakers and sommeliers.
incl. lunch from 12:30 p.m. Cancellation Policy
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Speaker
Wojciech Bońkowski, MW
Polish wine writer Wojciech Bońkowski MW is the author of eight wine books and co-founder of Poland’s leading wine media, Winicjatywa and Ferment. He specialises in the wines of Italy, Greece, Central Europe, Champagne, and fortified wines. He regularly contributes to Meininger’s Wine Business International, timatkin.com, Club Oenologique, and Falstaff. He is also a panel chair at the Decanter World Wine Awards and a judge at 50 Great Greek Wines. From 2016 to 2022, he served as President of the Polish Wine Trade Association. In 2023, he became Poland’s first Master of Wine.
