Heidi Shröck, Furmint, Burgenland, Austria, 2019

The talented Heidi Schröck works with her sons Johannes and Georg at the family winery in Rust, near the shores of Lake Neusiedl. As well as the Austrian grapes Zweigelt, Blaufränkisch and St Laurent, she champions traditional grapes such as Furmint, better known across the Hungarian border. This delicious everyday drinking white displays great purity, with white flower and ripe apple fruit, minerality, and a good bite of acidity. A small portion of destemmed berries were used in the ferment, which took place in large acacia casks. Eighteen months ageing on fine lees has given the wine texture.