"After all, the most important is where we are now, right? It seems that the debate about the style of the aszú wines was clearly and irrevocably closed. In the meantime, the producers began to discover their own areas and found the treasure they were sitting on. This was followed by a renaissance of dry wines where Mád and István Szepsy, who has slowly but surely become one of the most renowned winemakers not only of the region or Hungary but the whole world, took on a pioneering role again. Mádi Kör, an association for the protection of designation of origin was formed, a new debate about the style of dry Furmints and the proportion of Hárslevelű in dry wines sparked off, two recurring events: Furmint February and HÉJ (night of Hárslevelű wines) were launched in Budapest, International Furmint Day had its debut and The SOMM Journal pronounced 2017 to be the year of Furmint." - Daniel Ercsey