NYULÁSZÓ – 1ST 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, fresh, 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%

Sugar

204,8g/l

Acidity

6,82g/l

Bottling date

June 2021

Vintage

2018

Other Vintages

2018 2017 2016 2013 2008 2007 2003 2000 1999 1996 1993

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Nyulászó (meaning “a good place to catch hares”) is a celebrated First Growth vineyard overlooking the village of Mád. Its volcanic bedrock is overlaid with rich, brown clay interspersed with lighter rhyolite tuff, consistently producing racy, perfumed, elegant wines with a steely backbone. Royal Tokaji owns 15 ha of parcels planted mainly with Furmint, Hárslevelű and Kabar vines with an average age of around 25 years.

This wine is lively and elegant, tropical fruits and vanilla on the nose with ripe melon, greengage plums and apricot on the palate balanced by silky acidity. The finish is long and incredibly complex.

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.