£13.75–£13.95, The Daily Drinker and Corney & Barrow I chose a dry Furmint as my Wine of the Week in November and make no apologies for choosing another. This cheaper one is a great introduction to a grape variety, which, as I said then, "is up there with the best". It's also timely: Furmint is being promoted in London this month by Wines of Hungary UK, under the banner Furmint February. I tasted it with a slew of other good examples at the trade tasting that kick-started pro

£23.50, Corney & Barrow Don't be put off by the the thought of having to pronounce the name. This is a wonderful dry white, full of flavour and character, and Öreg Király-dulo translates simply and memorably as Old King vineyard. The steep, stony, traditionally terraced vineyard is on the majestic Király-hegy (King's hill), near the old town of Mád in the heart of the Tokaj region, and has belonged to the Barta family since 2003. They and their winemaker Vivien Ujvári are com

Two bottles of rare, museum collection Tokaji Aszú were opened in London last week. I was one of a handful of tasters Revolutionary harvest: 1956 Tokaji Aszú 5 puttonyos in its special 60th anniversary bottle For most of its life, this 1956 Tokaji Aszú was labelled 1957. It was not human error but a policy decision. The 1956 harvest started on 22 October and the next day the revolution against the Soviet Union began when students in Budapest took to the streets. When the comm