2019年2月25日 · This essence of grape—hence its name Essencia, or Eszencia in Hungarian—contains an incredible amount of sugar, sometimes as much as a whopping 800 grams per liter. This juice is then fermented for years in glass carboys or small wooden barrels.

2024年2月6日 · It's a painstaking process to create Royal Tokaji's Essencia. One of the biggest heartbreaks of making wine is a lost vintage, which is usually due to weather conditions before grapes have a...

2024年5月17日 · Royal Tokaji Essencia is widely regarded as one of the finest sweet wines in the world, highly prized for its harmonious combination of intense sweetness and acidity. Adam Lechmere investigates the origins of this historic wine.

Essencia is the liquid gold that very slowly oozes from a pile of aszú grapes raisined by botrytis. The miraculous autumn weather of the vintage provided perfect conditions for developing aszú berries and the harvest was of unmatched quality.

2021年8月17日 · The incredibly rare Tokaji Essencia, made from the syrupy free-run juice that trickles from pressed Aszú berries, usually contains more than 450g/L of residual sugar and is fermented in glass demijohns.

Traditional Hungarian winemakers need gray mold, or botrytis, to make sweet wines known as Tokaji Aszú. This essential fungus grows in moist river valleys and thrives on necrotrophy, meaning it...

Tokaji Eszencia (which Alana-Tokaj spells Essencia) comes into the world in mere droplets of golden flavor. So little is made - just under eight hundred bottles - that it is bottled by hand. The wine itself has remarkable choreography.

Essencia is an immortal wine and may last for 200 years or more. New, it has whiplash flavors and off-the-chart acidity that can catch in your throat. As it mellows, it casts an almighty deposit, it turns a wonderful bright mahogany color and weaves an astonishing tapestry of flavors – of apricots, quinces, marmalade, butterscotch…

Outstanding candied fruit character, corner jelly, and a nice touch of lemon balm herbs. Balanced with endless freshness and fruitiness where the high acidity balances the sweetness and contributes to a long and thrilling finish to the Essencia.