Wines of the Week

Even in the slow-moving world of wine there is room for the unexpected. Certainly, the emergence of central European grape furmint as a supermarket staple followed years of it hiding in plain sight, the main ingredient of Hungary's most famous wine, the luxurious liquid-gold of tangy-sweet tokaji.
But with dessert wines producers have been showcasing furmint's abilities as a dry white.
The wine the Royal Tokaji Company makes for Sainsbury's is a combination of electric acidity, plump, mouthfilling fruit and wild herbiness.
Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Hungarian Dry Furmint, Tokaj. Hungary 2016 (£8.50 75cl)
Click here to buy Taste the Difference Hungarian Dry Furmint 2016 online from Sainsbury's