MAD Dongo is the Hungarian wine that you can compare with premium Burgundies. Of course, if it doesn't disappear from the market within the next few hours...
Familiar or not with Hungarian varieties, you have just stumbled upon a "madly" premium wine from the region of Tokaj, specifically from the MAD winemaking team. The area is famous for its sweet wines, Tokaj Aszu, and for its particularly volcanic soils, which give a strong mineral character. The winemakers of MAD Dongo saw the potential of this terroir in 2009, and in collaboration with local producers, set out to highlight the area and the indigenous varieties. As expected, MAD soon gained a large audience and we wonder how we missed that till now...
MAD Dongo is a single vineyard wine from the charismatic Dongo vineyard, cultivated since the 18th century in the village of Tállya. The harvest was done manually and the wine was fermented by native yeasts. It then underwent malolactic fermentation and matured for 10 months in third-use Hungarian oak barrels called “zempléni”, which gave it its characteristic finesse.
Don't rush to drink it, because it has a bright future!
