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Style: Round
Country: Serbia
Region: Fruška Gora
Appellation/Sub-Region: Fruška Gora
Grapes: Furmint
Vineyard/Cellar Practices: Certified Organic, Low-Intervention/Natural Wine, Vegan
SO2: 15 milligrams per liter at bottling
Where Food Meets Its Match: Drink with acidic dishes to help enhance the wine’s fruitfulness; fatty and oily dishes will help temper the wine’s acidity.
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Get out your geology and history books, it’s time to talk about rocks and dueling empires. The small town of Kanjiža, home to Sagmeister winery, is located just below the Serbian-Hungarian border in the province of Vojvodina. Despite being ethnically Hungarian, winemaker Ernö Sagmeister and his wife Laura grew up about 40 kilometers away from each other in neighboring towns in Serbia, a common tale given the fact that Hungary lost over 70% of its land holdings after the Treaty of Trianon dismantled the Kingdom of Hungary in 1920. A perfect marriage of artful aesthetics and precise formulaics, Laura is an abstract painter and artist, while Ernö studied civil engineering and taught mathematics. In the early 2000s, Ernö decided to start experimenting with winemaking, inspired by childhood memories of making wine with his grandfather, and in 2008 he officially bought 3 vineyards in Fruška Gora National Park, just south of a storied region famous for providing wine to the Habsburg monarchy. Littered with limestone, slate, red and black clay, this unique terroir is a result of the region’s past history as an island in the Pannonian Sea about 10 million years ago which created ideal conditions for grape cultivation today. This single vineyard furmint hails from organically cultivated grapes that were handpicked and sorted. Following one day of maceration, the wine is wildly fermented in oak barrels and aged for 30 months in Hungarian and Serbian oak.