2009 Royal Tokaji Essencia 375ml

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Producer: The Royal Tokaji Wine Company. The winery has created a limited-edition magnum of its 2008 Essencia.

The 2009 Tokaji Essencia comes in 1,386 individual red lacquer hand-crafted boxes containing a 375ml bottle and an obligatory hand-blown glass spoon, which is not there for decorative purposes. It does enhance imbibement, allowing that enormous hit of sucrosity to land straight on the tongue instead of clinging to the sides of your mouth or gums. It has a surprisingly bashful nose for the first 12 hours.

Vineyard notes: “The majority of Royal Tokajis vineyards are in the Md commune. These include the First Growths Szt. Tams, Nyulsz, Betsek, and the Second Growth Birsalms. Royal Tokajis Mzes Mly vineyard a Great First Growth lies within the Tarcal commune. At the end of the 17th century, Tokaji asz wines were so well regarded throughout the Courts of Europe that Prince Rkczi insisted on a classification of the finest vineyards around the 28 villages in the region into: Great First Growths, First Growths, Second Growths and Third Growths. For over 300 years this special terroir has benefited from Botrytis to produce world class wines.”

Producer Notes: Essencia is the worlds most concentrated essence of its ripest grapes. Essencia is the liquid gold that very slowly oozes from a pile of asz grapes raisined by botrytis.

Harvest Notes

Between October and November the aszuzs took place, the process whereby the pickers hand pick the selected Furmint, Hrslevel and Yellow Muscat grapes one by one.
WinemakingAfter picking the free run juice was collected in glass jars. The alcoholic fermentation took place spontaneously and very slowly in 100% glass jars.
AgeingIt was aged for 7 years in glass jars.