{"id":229,"date":"2010-03-12T11:10:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T11:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2010-03-12T11:10:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T11:10:41","slug":"sweet-wine-season-10-royal-tokajis-mythical-essencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/hungary\/sweet-wine-season-10-royal-tokajis-mythical-essencia","title":{"rendered":"Sweet wine season, 10: Royal Tokaji&#8217;s mythical Essencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMGP8797.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-230\" title=\"tokaji essencia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMGP8797.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mythical wine. So sweet it could hardly ferment at all, made from the free run juice from selected botrytized aszu berries. Drunk from a spoon, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The  Royal Tokaji Company Essencia 2000 Tokaji, Hungary<br \/>\n<\/strong>2.9% alcohol, 620 g\/litre residual sugar. Remarkable stuff, fermented and  aged in glass jars for seven years, and not technically wine because the alcohol  level is too low. And it takes three years to ferment this far because of the  incredibly high sugar level, creating a highly hostile environment for yeasts to  work in. I tasted it from the special crystal Essencia spoon that comes with  each bottle. It\u2019s amazingly intense, fresh and spicy with lovely acidity  countering the wall of sweetness. Super-sweet yet complex with notes of apricot,  spice and herbs. Eternal finish. This is remarkable stuff, and it\u2019s almost  impossible to rate it with a numerical score, so I won\u2019t try. (\u00a3313.15 for a  half bottle, Berry Bros)<\/p>\n<p>see my full write up of the Royal Tokaji wines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/royaltokaji.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mythical wine. So sweet it could hardly ferment at all, made from the free run juice from selected botrytized aszu berries. Drunk from a spoon, too. The Royal Tokaji&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[381,30],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hungary","tag-hungary","tag-sweet-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}