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It is a recurrent desire for ambitious, future-oriented men to buy a land. This land may be a forest, a vineyard or an orchard, depending on what fits him the best. My father cherished the same idea when some forces brought him to the Western bank of Somló, over the woods, to the higher slopes of the proud hill. One might explain these forces based on their own belief, but I personally see it as a mission we have here. A family from Budapest ended up here from various theoretical and scientific fields, to create such a genuine bond with the territory, as if we had always been part of it. My parents worked hard, so that we can also work here with my wife now, and hopefully with my children in the future. We cultivate the grapes on 2.5 hectares in an organic way, observing and studying the plantations’ special needs. We see the estate as a garden where bugs, birds, fruit trees and many other plants live together; where we must oversee the harmony, which results in the creation of the base material for the wine. In addition to sulfur and copper we use orange oil and various teas for spraying, and we attach great importance to precisely coordinate seasonal works with nature.

We look at vintages as an opportunity to learn something new each year, so we do not use anything for the fermentation that would change natural processes! We want to get to know ourselves though winemaking, and thus we need the sincerest methods. The musts are fermented in barrels and amphorae and then matured in lees until bottling. In the last years our wines was bottled without filtering or fining, and no sulfur added. With the labels, we remind ourselves to three things. The hill, the grape and our fingerprint. Somló is a place that grew on us. We are working here on this volcanic, basaltic, sedimentary soil. The roots of the vine are reaching deeper and deeper to bring up something completely incomprehensible. The half-cut grapes symbolise the fruit, the plant and more broadly the garden, in which we have the most things to do. We need to find out which grape variety we shall pick for each area and what cultivation method will work best. And finally, the fingerprint represents our presence; our soul, expertise, strength, time, gratitude, muddy boots, bare sole, but our fatigue, despair, fear and errors are included in the produce. We put the wine into the bottle, so we decide the way we make it. And I tend to feel like it is just an excuse to be able to express our thoughts about the world…