There is much vintage variation, with approx 3-4 good/plentiful Aszú vintages out of 10. Aszú grapes were historically picked from bunches into 20 litre wooden tubs called ’puttony’. The Aszú grapes are crushed, releasing their intensely sweet juice. The non-Aszú grapes are vinified to make a base wine.
Bunches of grapes are harvested by hand for the base wines. Aszú berries are harvested – berry by berry – by hand. 1 kg of Aszú berries requires up to 5kg of healthy grapes to produce and each picker can collect no more than 8-10 kgs per day.
Rich intense nose with hints of orange peel and spice. Very fine and elegant wine, full-flavoured with vibrant acidity, citrus and peach on the palate with a long, balanced finish.
- Royal Tokaji
- Vintage: 2017
- Grape Variety: Furmint
- Ageing: Fine quality Aszú berries with good flavour, balance and perfect botrytis were macerated in fermenting must for two days. After pressing and finishing fermentation, the wines were filled into 300 and 500 litre Hungarian oak casks in our extensive, deep, underground cellars to mature for over two years. The final blends were carefully crafted in the spring of 2020.
- Number of Bottles Produced: 71 892
- Number of Bottles Available: 15 000
- Alcohol: 10,5 %
- Total Acidity: 8,17 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 189 g/l
- Dry Extract: 55 g/l
- Size of Bottle: 0,5 liter
- Ex Works Price: above 20 EUR
- Wine District: Tokaj
- Wine Region: Tokaj
- Wine Type: White, Tokaji Aszú, Sweet,