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BIRSALMÁS – 2ND GROWTH TOKAJI ASZÚ 6 PUTTONYOS 2018

In truly exceptional years Royal Tokaji selects the finest berries from its finest vineyards and carefully produces a few barrels of Single Vineyard Aszú. After a cold winter, temperatures rose rapidly in April and May, stimulating vigorous growth in the vines. Harvest was the earliest in living memory and probably the earliest ever, providing good volumes of healthy, ripe grapes with firm acidity and excellent quality. The warm, dry autumn was more conducive to drying the grapes than to botrytis, but nevertheless we managed to pick a very satisfactory amount of fine quality Aszú berries. Overall, a record-breaking and outstanding vintage, ripe, rich, and balanced. The excellent Aszú berries with good structure and perfect botrytis were macerated in fermenting must for two days. After pressing and finishing fermentation in barrel the wines were filled into 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 2021.

Alcohol

11,5%

Sugar

187,3g/l

Acidity

6,4g/l

Bottling date

June 2021

Vintage

2018

Other Vintages

2018 2008 2007 2005 2003 2000 1999 1996 1995
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Birsalmás is our smallest vineyard, name translates as quince orchard. It is situated on the southern and western slopes of the hill, overlooking the village of Mád, as garden vines, with volcanic top soil, loess-clay pockets. Royal Tokaji owns 2 ha of parcels planted with Furmint and Kövérszőlő vines with an average age of around 25 years.

A beautiful golden wine with plenty of dried fruits, apricot jam, vanilla and smokiness. Extremely rich nose. Spicy vanilla and plum. Very fine, elegant acidity provides perfect balance to the high sugar. An almost eternal finish.

Enjoy now or cellar for future enjoyment as the wine matures. Sip on its own as an aperitif, serve with fruit-based desserts or hard cheeses, or enjoy this mouth-watering wine on its own instead of a pudding.