Description: What is the meaning of life? The ENCOUNTER. Those carefree moments when we’re together. A cheerful yellow melon, minerals taking their time, a pinch of pear, and another “last round of drinks.” This bottle of wine speaks every language in the world. Try it!

Type of wine: Dry, white

Grape varieties: 2/3 Rhine Riesling, 1/3 Olaszrizling (Welshriesling)

Alcohol: 12.5%

Acidity: 6.4 g/L

Residual sugar: 4.8 g/L

Extract: 21.6 g/L

Terroir, vineyard: The grape for this wine comes from 3 locations of Badacsony wine region: Olaszrizling was harvested on Gulács-hill, while the Rhine Riesling is partially from Badacsony mountain, the rest is from Ábrahámhegy.

Technology: Olaszrizling was aged in 15-year-old, 500 L Hungarian oak barrel. Half of the Rhine Riesling matured in barrel as well (2-year-old, 300 L Hungarian oak), while the rest of it aged in stainless steel.

Serving temperature: 11–12 °C

Bottled quantity: 1242 bottles

Cellar webshop retail price: 5500 HUF / 15–16 EUR

 

Story: ‘Találkozás’ means ‘Encounter’ in Hungarian, it refers to the ‘encounter’ of grapes of three different vineyards, of three different ripening phases. And the name also refers to those moments of life, when we meet someone important for the first time. “As if you have met her a thousand times, yet you fall in love with her again when she whispers: see you on Sabar hill, let’s meet there!”

For Gábor Ádám, the owner of Sabar Wine House, personal meetings, “out of the blue” new friendships have special importance, this is why he created the concept of “Sabarism”, a community of like-minded people.