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Wines like Dry Furmint

Tokaj’s modern commercial mainstay: structured, smoky, high-acid dry white that barely existed thirty years ago. Below: what to try next, grouped by the direction you want to travel.

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What do you like about Dry Furmint?

Optional — the results below already work without it. But “I like Malbec” is at least four different preferences wearing one name, and saying which one you mean changes the answer substantially. Only qualities this wine actually has are offered.

I like…

The citrus and orchard fruit How fresh and crisp it is How full and weighty it is The creamy, rounded texture That it is properly dry

But it’s a bit…

too sharp or lemony too sharp or acidic too heavy too buttery or thick too oaky or woody too austere

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What these words mean

The citrus and orchard fruit: Lemon, lime, green apple, pear. The signature of a cool-climate white — quieter and less perfumed than tropical fruit, and a different thing from the acidity it usually travels with.
How fresh and crisp it is: Acidity is what makes your mouth water and makes a wine feel refreshing rather than heavy. It is the single most useful thing to know about your own taste.
How full and weighty it is: Body is how much the wine seems to fill your mouth — the difference between skimmed and whole milk. It comes mostly from alcohol and ripeness.
The creamy, rounded texture: A soft, almost dairy-like roundness. In white wine it usually comes from malolactic fermentation or from time on the lees, not from the grape.
The vanilla and oak: Vanilla, toast, coconut, sweet spice, sometimes smoke. It comes from the barrel rather than the grape, which is why the same grape can taste completely different with and without it.
That it is properly dry: No perceptible sugar at all. Almost all red wine is dry and a good deal of white wine is not, which is why this is a more useful thing to say about a white than about a red.

Looking for something keeping that it is properly dry, while moving away from too heavy.

Based on what you said

Ranked against the qualities you named rather than against the wine as a whole. The directions below are refined the same way.

Alpine white

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Keeps that it is properly dry.
Substantially less heavy.

Colombard

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Keeps that it is properly dry.
Substantially less heavy.

Hunter Valley Semillon

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Keeps that it is properly dry.
Substantially less heavy.

Melon de Bourgogne

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Keeps that it is properly dry.
Substantially less heavy.

Jura Savagnin and Chardonnay

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin, and both sit in the same style family.

Keeps that it is properly dry.
A little less heavy.

Muscadet

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Keeps that it is properly dry.
Substantially less heavy.

Loureiro

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Keeps that it is properly dry.
Substantially less heavy.

White Bordeaux

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin, and both sit in the same style family.

Keeps that it is properly dry.
A little less heavy.

Closest overall

Nearest neighbours, no change of direction.

Closest matches

The nearest overall neighbours across structure and flavour, with no deliberate change of direction.

Alpine white

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and leaner and more cutting.

Colombard

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

Hunter Valley Semillon

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and lighter in alcohol.

Melon de Bourgogne

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

Different grape, similar feel

Deliberately excludes the variety you already know, to find a genuinely new wine that fills the same role.

Alpine white

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and leaner and more cutting.

Colombard

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

Hunter Valley Semillon

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and lighter in alcohol.

Melon de Bourgogne

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

Change the structure

Same idea, different weight, grip or freshness.

Similar but lighter

Keeps the character but reduces weight, alcohol and density in the mouth.

Alpine white

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and leaner and more cutting.

Colombard

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

Hunter Valley Semillon

They occupy similar territory for weight and structure.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and lighter in alcohol.

Koshu

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and more restrained in fruit.

Similar but lower in alcohol

Holds the character and the weight where it can, and moves specifically on strength. Note that below about 11% the choices narrow sharply, and below 5% they are mostly a different category rather than a lighter version of the same one.

Hunter Valley Semillon

They occupy similar territory for weight and structure.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter in alcohol, and lighter.

Alpine white

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and leaner and more cutting.

Colombard

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

Melon de Bourgogne

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

Similar but fuller

Keeps the character but adds weight, concentration and mouthfeel.

Condrieu

Both sit in the same style family.

Expect: Expect it to be fuller and richer, and sweeter.

Viognier

Viognier scores closest to Dry Furmint across WineHQ’s taste dimensions.

Expect: Expect it to be fuller and richer, and sweeter.

Jura Savagnin and Chardonnay

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin, and both sit in the same style family.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and leaner and more cutting.

White Bordeaux

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin, and both sit in the same style family.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more herbal and green.

Similar but less tannic

For readers who find firm reds drying. Reduces tannic grip while holding flavour and weight roughly steady.

Nothing in WineHQ's catalogue makes this move meaningfully from here. These are the closest wines otherwise, but do not expect them to deliver what you asked for — the honest answer is that this style does not have a good neighbour in that direction.

Jura Savagnin and Chardonnay

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin, and both sit in the same style family.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and less oaky.

White Bordeaux

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin, and both sit in the same style family.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more herbal and green.

Alvarinho (Monção e Melgaço)

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more aromatic.

Verdicchio

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and softer and rounder.

Similar but more structured

More tannic architecture, for food or for ageing.

Rkatsiteli

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and less oaky.

Mtsvane Kakhuri

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and less oaky.

Koshu

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and more restrained in fruit.

Brda Rebula

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more restrained in fruit.

Similar but softer

Lowers acidity and sharpness in favour of a broader, gentler feel.

White Bordeaux

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin, and both sit in the same style family.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more herbal and green.

Verdicchio

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and leaner and more cutting.

Xarel·lo

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and less oaky.

Altesse

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and less oaky.

The sparkling version

Moves to a sparkling expression while holding the flavour and weight as close as possible.

Crémant

They occupy similar territory for weight and structure.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and stronger and warmer.

English Blanc de Noirs

They occupy similar territory for weight and structure.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and stronger and warmer.

English sparkling wine

They occupy similar territory for weight and structure.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and stronger and warmer.

Australian traditional-method sparkling

They occupy similar territory for weight and structure.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and stronger and warmer.

Similar but sweeter

Adds perceptible sweetness, which also softens acidity and chilli heat.

Vinho Verde

They occupy similar territory for weight and structure.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and lighter.

Trebbiano Romagnolo

They occupy similar territory for weight and structure.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and lighter.

Müller-Thurgau

They occupy similar territory for weight and structure.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and lighter.

Rheingau Riesling

They occupy similar territory for weight and structure.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and stronger and warmer.

Change the flavour

Same shape, different aromatic character.

Similar but less oaky

One of the commonest requests in wine. Strips oak influence while holding grape character and weight.

Altesse

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and softer and rounder.

Arinto

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and leaner and more cutting.

Australian Riesling

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and leaner and more cutting.

Auxerrois

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and softer and rounder.

Similar but more oaky

Adds barrel character, toast and a creamier texture.

California Chardonnay

Both sit in the same style family.

Expect: Expect it to be fuller and richer, and sweeter.

White Bordeaux

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin, and both sit in the same style family.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and less oaky.

Jura Savagnin and Chardonnay

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin, and both sit in the same style family.

Expect: Expect it to be less oaky, and stronger and warmer.

White Burgundy

curated

The comparison most often drawn for serious dry Furmint.

Expect: Nuttier and more oak-driven, at far higher prices.

Similar but more aromatic

More to smell before you taste — floral, fruity or spiced aromatics.

Mantinia Moschofilero

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and more floral.

Moschofilero

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and more floral.

Sauvignon Blanc

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more herbal and green.

Loureiro

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and more floral.

Similar but more restrained

For readers who find intensely aromatic wines tiring over a whole glass. Keeps the structure, turns the volume down.

Melon de Bourgogne

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

Muscadet

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

Koshu

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and more restrained in fruit.

Trebbiano d’Abruzzo

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and softer and rounder.

Similar but more floral

Pushes specifically towards rose, violet, blossom and elderflower character.

Albariño

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and less oaky.

Australian Riesling

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and less oaky.

Loureiro

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and more floral.

Mantinia Moschofilero

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and more floral.

Similar but more savoury

Moves away from primary fruit towards earth, herb, meat and umami character.

Franken Silvaner

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and softer and rounder.

Hunter Valley Semillon

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and lighter in alcohol.

Muscadet

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

Jura Savagnin and Chardonnay

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin, and both sit in the same style family.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and cleaner and more fruit-focused.

Similar but fruitier

More obvious, generous fruit flavour, usually from a warmer climate.

Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more herbal and green.

Spätlese

They occupy similar territory for weight and structure.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and less oaky.

Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains

Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains scores closest to Dry Furmint across WineHQ’s taste dimensions.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and lighter.

Petit Manseng

Petit Manseng scores closest to Dry Furmint across WineHQ’s taste dimensions.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and fuller and richer.

Change the place

Keep the grape, move it somewhere else.

Same grape, somewhere else

Holds the variety constant and changes the place, which is often a bigger change than swapping the grape.

Štajerska Šipon

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and less oaky.

Šipon

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and less oaky.

Same grape, cooler climate

Typically fresher, lighter and more herbal, with lower alcohol.

Štajerska Šipon

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and less oaky.

Šipon

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and less oaky.

Hárslevelű

Both are made from hárslevelű, and they occupy similar territory for weight and structure, both come from the same country.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and stronger and warmer.

Furmint

Both are made from furmint, and both come from the same country.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and fuller and richer.

Same grape, warmer climate

Typically riper, fuller and more generous in fruit, with higher alcohol.

Štajerska Šipon

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more restrained in fruit.

Šipon

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more restrained in fruit.

Hárslevelű

Both are made from hárslevelű, and they occupy similar territory for weight and structure, both come from the same country.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and stronger and warmer.

Furmint

Both are made from furmint, and both come from the same country.

Expect: Expect it to be sweeter, and fuller and richer.

Change the mood

Safer, stranger, cheaper or more serious.

A safe next step

Well-known wines that are widely available and unlikely to surprise anyone.

Chablis

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more restrained in fruit.

Albariño

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more floral.

Rías Baixas Albariño

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more floral.

Australian Riesling

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and less oaky.

Something more adventurous

Less familiar wines that occupy similar territory — the interesting end of the shelf.

Alpine white

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and leaner and more cutting.

Colombard

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

Hunter Valley Semillon

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and lighter in alcohol.

Melon de Bourgogne

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

A better-value alternative

Wines that occupy similar sensory territory from regions carrying less price premium. WineHQ does not hold live prices, so this reasons from regional reputation and demand rather than from a price feed — treat it as a lead, not a quote.

Alpine white

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and leaner and more cutting.

Colombard

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

Hunter Valley Semillon

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and lighter in alcohol.

Melon de Bourgogne

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be lighter, and less oaky.

A step up

The benchmark expressions of the same territory, usually with more concentration, structure and ageing potential.

White Burgundy

curated

The comparison most often drawn for serious dry Furmint.

Expect: Nuttier and more oak-driven, at far higher prices.

Chablis

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more restrained in fruit.

Grüner Veltliner

The structural profile is close across body, acidity and tannin.

Expect: Expect it to be stronger and warmer, and more herbal and green.

South African Chenin Blanc

curated

Both are high-acid, waxy, textured whites that take oak well.

Expect: Riper and fuller, with more stone fruit.

How these are chosen

Each suggestion is scored across sixteen taste dimensions, weighted so that structure matters more than flavour, and adjusted for whether the wine actually moves in the direction you asked for. Curated links from an editor carry extra weight — but only when the editor tagged them for this direction. Nothing here is a black box; see the taste model for the full method.