Barta Tokaji Aszú 6 puttonyos 2016

 

Type of the wine: White, sweet
Grape variety: Furmint
Acidity: 13 g/l
Alcohol:  9.5%
Sugar: 245 g/l
Terroir, vineyard:  Öreg király vineyard (Mád, Tálya)
Training system:  Low cordon
Harvest: Hand harvested
Technology: Botyrtised Furmint berries of exceptional quality were macerated in fermenting Furmint base wine for 18 hours and pressed for the juice to be fermented in oak barrels for three weeks. After fermentation, the wine was cooled and racked, and then aged for 24 months in 228-litre Zemplén oak barrels (medium toasted with toasted heads), made by Kádár Hungary. The barrels were topped up continually for protection against oxygen.
Quality level:  Premium
Temperature:  13 °C
Food pairing:  Ideal with cheese – blue cheese, Stilton, Roquefort – and with desserts like ‘flódni’ (a typical Jewish cake made of walnut, poppy- seed, apple and honey), pancake with vanilla and mint chips, lemon sorbet, vanilla cream. A perfect aperitif with goat cheese, walnut chips and fig and unforgettable with foie gras.
Available quantity:  N/A
Retail price: 120–130 euro  / 0.375 L
Awards:  DWWA 2020 Platinum award (97 points)

Description

Botyrtised Furmint berries of exceptional quality were macerated in fermenting Furmint base wine for 18 hours and pressed for the juice to be fermented in oak barrels for three weeks. After fermentation, the wine was cooled and racked, and then aged for 24 months in 228-litre Zemplén oak barrels (medium toasted with toasted heads), made by Kádár Hungary. The barrels were topped up continually for protection against oxygen.

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