Eszterbauer Telihold Kékfrankos 2024

A single-vineyard Kékfrankos from an excellent vintage. Clean, spicy nose brimming with fruit. Firm acidity drives the wine, while its complex structure creates a harmonious balance with notes of sour cherry, blackberry, and soft roasted chocolate.

"My great-grandfather—a man with a magnificent mustache—was stubborn and fiercely attached to the vines he had planted himself; to escape the collective farm agitators, he fled to *Faluhely*, our summer vineyard cottage. He would return home only once a week—and even then, only at dawn—to fetch clean clothes and bread. They never managed to recruit him into the collective; not that he necessarily fared better for it, but he remained free and independent. One particular remark of his is still recounted in our family today. Once, by the light of a full moon, he took a hearty swig from the demijohn, wiped his massive mustache, and said: 'Hey, Moon! What are you to me? You fill up only once a month, whereas I do it every single day…'" – János Eszterbauer