Essencia is the world’s most concentrated essence of its ripest grapes. Essencia is the liquid gold that very slowly oozes from a pile of aszú grapes raisined by botrytis.
- Winery: Royal Tokaji
- Vintage: 2008
- Grape Variety: Furmint, Hárslevelű, Yellow Muscat
- Ageing: Between mid-October and mid-November - the ‘aszúzás’ took place, the process whereby the pickers handpick the selected Furmint aszú berries. Then the free run juice was collected and the alcoholic fermentation took place spontaneously. After that the essencia was stored in our cellar in glass ’demijohns’.
- Number of Bottles Produced: 4000
- Number of Bottles Available: 400
- Alcohol: 11,5 %
- Total Acidity: 10.92 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 151.7 g/l
- Dry Extract: 57,3 g/l
- Size of Bottle: 0,375 liter
- Wine District: Tokaj
- Wine Region: Tokaj
- Wine Type: White, Sweet,