Jasz Laci "Breath of the Volcano" Hungarian Red 2023

Jasz Laci "Breath of the Volcano" Hungarian Red 2023Press 4 Red October November 2025 Direct Press Selection The enigmatic Jsz Laci is making some of the most uncompromising wines in Somlo. Despite making some of the most exciting expressions of the region's intense volcanic terroir, his wines never get the Somlo designation. This is because Hungary's wine bureaucracy is even more hardheaded and antagonistic to natural wines than France's. "Breath of the Volcano" is a rare red wine from him and this

After an aging farmer could no longer maintain his 100 year-old plot of Sumoll

One of the most exciting wines we've come across recently is this Garnacha from Laguardia

Three weeks on the skins in a mix of steel and amphora

orange pith

Ben Fletcher/José Pastor

The bracing edge of this wine will soften a bit with some air and reveal some softer creamy notes

The grapes are hand-harvested and destemmed

The younger Toni and his partner Anna Serra now work 28 hectares of vines completely without chemical treatments

one vine at a time

The Scythians Palomino and is 95% Palomino and 5% of some unknown red and white varieties from the Lopez Vineyard

refreshing qualities

There's a beautiful mixture of primary fruit and tertiary