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Dobogó Tokaji Eszencia

2010
Territory
Tokaj, Hungary
Style
natural sweet wine
Eszencia is the most concentrated drink made from natural ingredients. We can only make it in the best vintages, as it requires a large quantity of aszú grains, which drip out a small amount of nectar from their own weight. In a drier vintage, 1 to 1.5 litres of Eszencia can be extracted from 100 kg of aszú in a dry year. These grapes lose their water content and shrivel up due to noble rot caused by the mould fungus Botrytis cinerea. Fermentation in such high sugar must is very slow and very small, so that even after several years of fermentation and ageing, the Eszencia can only reach an alcohol content of 2-6% and cannot really be called a wine. Its natural sugar content ranges from 450-600 g/l in an average vintage, but we have also measured sugar levels above 900 g/l (2009 and 2018). To date, only 100 bottles have been produced from a single vintage, all of which are polished in a custom-made oak box and a crystal glass.
Price
200-400
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In stock
15
About the producer
Dobogó Winery
Dobogó is a small family run winery renowned for its small quantity of stellar wines and for the capacity to marry Tokaj’s centuries of heritage and tradition with a young, fresh, original approach.
Details
Method
low intervention
Style
natural sweet wine
Sweetness
lusciously sweet
Vintage
2010
In stock
15
Price
200-400
Territory
Tokaj, Hungary
Variety
Furmint
Volume
250 ml
Packaging
Private label
Characteristics
Its dry wines boast high acidity, great complexity, excellent structure and characteristic aromatics. They may be steely yet elegant in cooler vintages. Dry wines produced from ripe, but not overripe, grapes, harvested at full maturity, without any botrytised berries, can command high prices and have decades of ageing potential. They can be made from any of the permitted Tokaj varieties, but Furmint or Hárslevelű are the most common, followed by Sárgamuskotály.Sweet wines can deliver a wonderful sensory experience, depending on the sugar and dry extract content.Late-harvested sweet wines can be made good quality in the right vintages, but they are usually made from grapes which are either not botrytised or just have a touch of botrytis. Botrytis also concentrates the sugar and acidity in the grapes, so Tokaj sweet wines are well-balanced and lively and retain their fruitiness for a long time. Tokaj’s sweet wines are not dessert wines but rather balanced, often terroir wines, which happen to contain residual sugar.
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