Grand Tokaj Aszú 5 puttonyos Museum Collection 1983

Hungría / Tokaji

Delicious, medium-bodied dessert wine made with the traditional method in this region by macerating and refermenting botrytis-affected grapes with a still wine. Museum Selection. Kept for 4 decades in the 'Szegi' cave-cellar, one of the oldest in Tokaj.
9,1% vol.

Appellation: Tokaj

Grape Variety: Base wine: 100% Furmint. Macerated varieties with botrytis: Furmint, Hárslevelü & Sárga muskotály (Yellow Muscat).

Winemaking: The autumn of 1983 was long, warm and dry, producing exceptional quality and extraordinary volume. Fermentation in stainless steel tanks. Aged for 18 months in oak barrels of 136 to 500 liters. Bottled since 1985.

Tasting Notes: 1983: Mount Etna erupts and Michael Jackson unveils the „moonwalk”. Microsoft releases Windows, Raphael paintings are stolen in Budapest and 6,800 gold bars are stolen in London.
Although Antarctica records a temperature of -89.2 degrees Celsius in July, a perfect, warm and long summer and a dry autumn in Tokaj provide ideal conditions for the development of aszú berries. So much aszú was produced that the beautifully dried, shrivelled aszú berries could be shredded from the stalks. Such exceptional quality is rarely matched by large volumes, but in 1983 this was the case for both aszú and eszencia.
Best enjoyed from now through to 2035.

Presentation: Exclusive individual golden box with magnetic closure with 375 ml bottle.
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