Bóka Birtok
Pálfa, Hungary (Tolna)
Bóka Birtok is a true micro-estate: András Bóka, along with his wife Erzsébet, and brother Zoltán, farm just a hectare and a half of vines in Pálfa, a quiet village in Tolna County, on the deep loess soils of southern Hungary. The whole family works the land, and the philosophy fits on the label — természethű borok, wines true to nature.
The estate is a Kadarka specialist above all. Seventy percent of the vineyard is planted to Hungary's great but temperamental red grape, in two clones: the aromatic Fűszeres ("Spicy") Kadarka and the Jakab Kadarka, a traditional local strain the family considers a genetic treasure worth saving. Around it grow old-vine Kékfrankos — forty-plus years old, low-yielding, the backbone of their bikavér-style blend — plus Chardonnay, the delicate native Királyleányka, and Zenit, a Hungarian crossing.
In the cellar all wines go into steel tanks and are then left to grow. There is no filtering, no fining, no additives. The result is a small, vivid range — pale, perfumed Kadarka, joyful pét-nats, an orange wine, and a white quartet from vines over fifty years old.
One family, one village, one grape at the center of everything — Kadarka the way it used to taste.
IMPORTED SELECTIONS
Kadarka
Opur