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Tokaji Aszú, 6 puttonyos – Szent Benedek Pincészet

This Aszú is made from Tokaj’s two most important indigenous varieties. The base wine is Furmint, and the Aszú berries (botrytized grapes) are 50 percent Furmint and 50 percent Hárslevelű. Winemaker József Ádam called 2014 the hardest vintage in Tokaj in the 21st century. Heavy rain in the autumn, followed by cool days, caused grapes to ripen slowly, but brought botrytis (grapes afflicted by ‘noble rot’) happened earlier. Botrytis is the essential process that occurs in Tokaj to produce stunning sweet wines like this one. As the grapes shrivel and dry out, the sugar, acidity, and flavors get concentrated and intensified. During the harvest, selection of the botrytis berries was rigorous, so despite the difficulties, Ádam produced some unique and excellent wines after all. This one is case in point! Grapes for the base wine were harvested by hand at the end of October, and the selection of Aszú berries happened during several harvests over an entire month. The Aszú grapes were then macerated in fermenting must for seven days. The wine was aged in an oak barrel for two and a half years, and bottled in June 2017. This wine has 184 grams of residual sugar per liter, and 11.5 grams of acidity per liter. The gorgeous, deep golden color is the first sign that this will be…

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In 1700 Tokaj developed one of the world’s earliest vineyard classification systems, and Tokaj is most famous for being the birthplace of Tokaji Aszú—one of the world’s oldest sweet wines.

Located in northeastern Hungary—which historically has been the crossroads of Central Europe—the region is framed by natural borders: the town of Tokaj in the southwest corner where the Bodrog and the Tisza rivers meet, the Bodrog river to the southeast, and the Zemplén hills to the northwest. The Tokaj region has 5,500 hectares of vineyards and 27 towns and villages. Wines from the different vineyards can all be quite different, and winemakers here love to experiment with single vineyard wines.

On top of its long and fascinating history, the Tokaj region has so much for wine-lover’s to discover. It is rich in a variety of volcanic soils; has a microclimate ideal for bringing on noble rot (botrytis); grows some really interesting indigenous grape varieties; and has a truly enchanting subterranean labyrinth of mould-covered cellars where the wines age. Though Tokaj is best known for its sweet Aszú wines, which are made from botrytized grapes, more than half of the wine it produces is dry.

Six official grape varieties grow in Tokaj. The superstars are the indigenous varieties Furmint and Hárslevelű, with Furmint being the high profile grape that tends to steal the show. Other varieties grown in smaller quantities are Sárga Muskotály, Kövérszölö, Zéta (a crossing of Furmint and Bouvier), and Kabar (a crossing of Hárslevelű and Bouvier). All of these wines are being increasingly made in dry styles, which winemakers are embracing because they are more marketable.

But it’s the sweet wines which make the region so unlike any other. They rely on the development of botrytis, which comes with the right weather conditions. The harvest here is a long, labor-intensive process which starts with the dry wine harvests, and continues with the harvesting of the botrytized grapes, which is done by hand.

In addition to Aszú (which is made with botryized grapes which are selectively harvested by hand, one berry at a time), other styles include late harvest wines, sweet and dry versions of Szamorodni (made with whole clusters of grapes containing a mixture of both botrytized and healthy grapes), Forditás (made from the second pressing after Aszú is made), Máslás (made from the second pressing after Aszú is made), and Eszencia (made from the free-run juice of Aszú berries, so thick and concentrated that it only reaches about four percent alcohol).

Szent Benedek’s winemaker, József Ádam, aims to show the diverse volcanic soils of the vineyards around the top Tokaj towns of Tállya and Mád. T

his small family-owned winery is located in a 17th century villa in the village of Tállya, with an enchanting old mould-covered cellar. Ádam is a winemaker with passionate ideas about his work, and what a Tokaj wine should be. He believes blending dry wines from different vineyards is the key to real Tokaj-style dry wines, comparing blending to being ‘like mixing spices in cooking’. Then he likes to age them to perfection, for much longer than most wineries in the region do today.

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