Type of wine: Dry, White

Grape varieties: 100% Rhine Riesling

Alcohol: 13%

Acidity: 5.4 g/L

Residual sugar: 5.1 g/L

Extract: 18.8 g/L

Terroir, vineyard: The grape came from the southern slopes of volcanic Badacsony mountain. A plantation of 50-year-old vines, with warm climate and very stony soil.

Technology: Spontaneous fermentation in 500 L, mild toast Austrian barrel (more than 10 years old). Maturation in the same barrel for about 8 months – harvest on 14 September 2022 and bottling on 5 June 2023.

Serving temperature: 11–12 °C

Bottled quantity: 1968 bottles

Cellar webshop retail price: 4600 HUF / 11–12 EUR

 

Story, awards: The name of the wine refers to the birth year of the owner, Gábor Ádám. As he comments, 1968 was a year full of revolutionary events, and this wine somehow conveys the rebel buzz of this emblematic year, and the values he represents.