A unique and honest wine: 2014 Tango from Tokaj wine region
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The 2014 tango from the Tállya winery SZÓLÓ is a unique and honest wine. Keeping with the winery’s philosophy an exciting and modern wine was born by relying on the venerable traditional technology of extended ageing under flor yeast film.
From the very beginning the winery has been using modern and traditional techniques side by side and tango spent three years in a quiet corner of the cellar resting in a sealed barrel filled to the top with wine made from hárslevelű harvested in the Tökösmály vineyard. The inspiration came from vin jaune a wine traditionally aged under flor yeast film in the Jura region of France, at the same time it was also important to preserve the traditions of the Tokaj wine region and being true to their own clean winemaking ethos.
There are three places in the world where wines under flor are produced: in France it’s the so-called yellow wine (vin jaune), in Spain it’s the different versions of sherry and in Hungary it’s dry szamorodni.
The film developing on the surface of wine (flor) is the product of yeasts responsible for fermentation. Sometimes extra assistance is needed for the successful completion of the process but in the case of tango there was no need for any intervention. The flor film is conducive to the development of a reductive environment in the wine as the yeasts also consume the oxygen solved in the liquid and the flor film prevents the access of external oxygen.
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„Flor is the name of a winemaking technology referring to the yeast film of various thickness forming on the surface of a wine and then remaining in continuous interaction with the wine changing its chemical composition and thus effecting its final aromas and flavours. During the last decade winemakers all over the world have started experimenting with similar technologies not just in the classical regions”, explains András Kató, the Manager of Terroir Club.
