Koncz Réka – Óra

Koncz Réka Óra: Organic Hungarian Natural Orange Wine

Discover Koncz Réka Óra, a natural orange wine that beautifully captures the essence of Northeast Hungary as a magical, skin-fermented white field blend. The name is a clever play on words — referencing "orange" and "or d'or," meaning golden gold — while also serving as a reminder of the time and patience the winemaker needs to get to know her own terroir. Harvested from old vines in Barabás, this wine is an excellent example of minimal-intervention, no-compromise winemaking, built with patience and precision.

How Koncz Réka Óra Is Made: Hands-Off and Patient

This orange wine relies on the structural power of skin contact and slow, natural stabilization instead of additives or barrel manipulation. The grapes — a traditional field blend of Királyleányka, Rhine Riesling, Furmint, and Hárslevelű — are hand-harvested. After destemming, the must soaks and ferments on the skins for 5 days, extracting the wine's wonderful amber-gold color and complex phenolic structure. Fermentation happens naturally, with no cultured yeast, capturing the wild, authentic spirit of the Barabás landscape. The wine ferments and takes shape exclusively in tank — the winemaker used no barrel at all in its making, allowing the pure varietal character and volcanic minerality to develop without any wood influence. True to the winemaker's philosophy, it's bottled with no fining or filtration, with only a minimal addition of sulfur (10–30 mg/l) depending on the vintage's needs.

Terroir and Taste Profile

The grapes grow on Tipet Hill (Kaszony Hill) in Barabás, a distinctive island volcano. Its soil consists of rhyolite, andesite, dacite, and their tuffs, lending the wine a deep, stony-mineral character. It shines in a beautiful, luminous amber-gold color. The aroma unfolds with dried stone fruits, orange peel, and subtle earthy-volcanic tones. It delivers a seriously textured, medium-bodied experience: the soft, silky tannins from skin contact work in perfect harmony with vibrant, refreshing acidity, giving a long, clean finish.

If you enjoy Koncz Réka's natural winemaking philosophy, it's worth trying other Koncz Réka wines as well — the same minimal-intervention philosophy, through a different grape and style. You can read more about orange wine winemaking here.

Order Koncz Réka Óra today, and discover one of Northeast Hungary's most exciting natural orange wines, reflecting a rare island-volcano terroir.