FRED #9

Personality: funky, earthy, incredibly congenial. As Zsolti says, the F in the name stands for “friendly, fresh, but also f* good red,” and he’s 100% correct on all accounts.

A non-vintage blend of wines fermented in open casks and then aged in old oak for various amounts of time. Once blended, it’s bottled unfined and unfiltered under a crown cap, with zero addition of sulphur. Grapes are hand-harvested and destemmed.

• Area: Slovakia, Kurt
• Grapes: Alibernet (a cross between Alicante Henri Bouschet and Cabernet Sauvignon), Dunaj (cross of Blauer Potugieser and Sankt Laurent), Portugieser